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Its also 1931, and so some of the music (composed by Oscar Straus with lyrics by Clifford Grey) also reflects the jazz age, somewhat anachronistically. Niki is a guard in service to the palace in 18th-century Vienna, and hes a rapscallious playboy. There are a whole lot of the latter - if you’re wondering whether or not I’ve seen the masterpiece you can’t believe I omitted, check my master list. In The Smiling Lieutenant, Maurice Chevalier returns to Ernst Lubitschs stage to play Niki. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were in many cases already pretty dusty.) If a film isn’t currently in my top ten, and I haven’t yet rated it, you’ll find it under Notable Omissions below or you won’t find it at all. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. Ratings are on a needlessly precise 100-point scale.įilms I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. It's no different in this Ernst Lubitsch precode for Lt Nikolaus von Preyn, better known as Niki, is living the high life for sure. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Life was always a blast in classic musicals set in the Europe of the 19th century, most of which were based on European operettas. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere.
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