Id Rather Be in Jail Than Be in Love Again Hear My Song Movie
Chelsom's Vocal
I don't recollect Peter Chelsom's appreciation will abound much today, with audiences and critics more inclined to pyrotechnics, flamboyant styles and cynic approach to mankind's troubles. Chelsom is a skilled filmmaker, just for today's tastes his cinema seems too close to the audience'due south soft hearts, and that is probably his less attractive trait. I like a few of his movies: "The Mighty", "Serendipity" as predictable as it is, and my favorites "Funny Basic" and "Hear My Song" which he likewise wrote. Both deal with a search and possess a frenetic and funny arroyo to human foibles, and in this case an enthusiastic leading character, every bit played past Adrian Dunbar who also co-wrote. He is a nightclub administrator who keeps cheating on his patrons, bringing mediocre artists to perform. When he brings a fake tenor who humiliates his time to come mother-in-law (Shirley-Ann Field, who had an affair with the real tenor), he embarks on the near impossible: finding the existent vocalizer, who cannot step on Irish soil due to tax evasion. Ned Beatty gives the functioning of his life (and that's a lot to say) as the singer, leading the story to a moving conclusion.
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Slap-up stuff here
Gee, good story. Great scenery. Excellent acting. Slap-up music. Tara Fitzgerald unclothed. Well, Tara's nude scene was less than germane to the plot, though I think she's totally yummy. Ned Beatty actually pulled the function of Jo Locke off quite well, not going over the top trying to lay on the old Irish brogue bit likewise heavy. The Locke vocals were sung by Vernon Midgely, & since I had never heard music like that earlier, I was knocked out. The trad Irish "diddly-diddly" tunes in the soundtrack are by Patrick Street, one of the best contemp Irish bands you tin can detect. Adrian Dunbar, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Peter Chelsom, was wonderful, equally semi-crooked music hall manager Mickey O'Neill. Tara Fitzgerald portrayed Nancy Doyle, O'Neill's "fiancee", & brings the role off very well. James Nesbitt, who may be known from "Ballykissangel", plays O'Neill'southward best friend back in Ireland. Shirley Anne Field, one of Britain's truthful beauties of the lx's, plays Fitzgerald'southward female parent, a flame left behind by Beatty'southward Jo Locke, when he left England every bit a tax exile in the '50's. I merely wish we could get a Managing director's Cut here in u.s., as the US theatrical & video releases list actors(Brian Flanagan as "Young Mickey", Constane Cowley as "Nurse, and Marie Mullen every bit "Mickey's Mum") in the credits which for some inexplicable reason were cutting from the North American release. This scene has to practise with why Mickey O'Neill can't tell someone he loves them(i.e. Tara Fitzgerald as Nancy). Rumour has information technology "Hear My Song" will be re-released on DVD in the Great britain in July '09....only a US release is even so delayed so DVD makers tin press more than boxed sets of "Dog, The Bounty Hunter", anime, and Hannah Montana(whose "movie" was actually directed by Peter Chelsom, who directed and wrote "Hear My Vocal") Still, this is a wonderful picture show,
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A True Please
A shady liverpool concert promoter, Adrian Dunbar, goes to Ireland to observe and bring back an elusive tenor, Ned Beatty, who is wanted by the law for tax evasion, in social club to restore his reputation and win back his girl. This romantic one-act is so charming I am surprised anyone could dislike it. Director Peter Chelson does an wonderful job. He displays a real feel for the characters, and the small details which give the motion-picture show its sense of actuality. The leading actors are excellent, peculiarly Ned Beatty, who gives the performance of his career, just they accept to compete with a host of colorful minor characters. Requite information technology a wait. Y'all shant be disappointed.
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A mannerly Irish gaelic fantasy based on the actual life of a great vocalist.
I was charmed past more than than the fact that I couldn't take my eyes off Tara Fitzgerald. A lovely whimsical plot, painting a picture of Irish fantasy, fairies and all, over the true life background of a bully singer. And a beautiful soundtrack featuring original Locke recordings reminds us of just how moving a pure tenor voice can be. Who on earth needs techno and rap?
None of the other correspondents has yet picked upward on the fact that Josef Locke (born Joseph McLaughlin 1917, died 1999) was alongside John McCormack every bit ane of the two bully Irish gaelic tenors (one contributor has even written that he was a baritone -were you actually listening??) of the 20th century, and that he retired to rural life in Co Kildare in 1958 subsequently the British Inland Acquirement began to pursue him for large but disputed amounts of tax. That much is established fact, but this story of his comeback functioning and the events surrounding it is indeed fantasy, with a happy feelgood catastrophe. Just what'due south so wrong with that? I similar to be entertained, and dissimilar your more dismal correspondents I don't need to exist intellectually challenged to thoroughly savour a movie. Nine out of ten, and I idea seriously nigh giving it x as a gesture of eternal devotion to the stunningly beautiful Tara.
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A Bit of Irish Whimsy
Hear My Song (1991) is a bit of Irish gaelic whimsy about a fast talking London theatrical promoter, (Adrian Dunbar) who books legendary Irish tenor Joseph Locke When the tenor is revealed as an impostor, and Dunbar loses both his theater and his fiancée (Tara Fitzgerald). He and then sets forth on an odyssey to Republic of ireland to detect the existent Joseph Locke, bring him back to London, relieve the theater, and win dorsum the daughter. Of course, the whole point of every epic quest from Homer on down is for the hero to finally realize why he left in the first place (this realization occurs while Dunbar is dangled off the side of a very loftier cliff). The cast is amazing, peculiarly David McCallum as a police inspector obsessed with capturing Locke, and Ned Beatty gives a very apparent and warmhearted performance every bit Joseph Locke (although the singing is dubbed). The Irish countryside is breathtaking--as is Tara Fitzgerald--and the story is bully fun in the tradition of Local Hero and Eat the Peach.
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Desperately seeking Josef.....................
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When I listened to the wireless in the 1940s and 50s Mr Locke was a regular on the Calorie-free Programme,constantly appearing as a invitee of such luminaries as Henry Hall or Vic Oliver on their radio shows.He topped the beak at Variety Theatres all over the country for years and then disappeared off the radar - "Got some girl in trouble I'll be bound",was my father's comment which went a bit above my head at the age of 13.So clearly his reputation had reached even the leafy lanes of Surrey by that time,if not the real reason for his vanishing.My mother was inconsolable until she discovered Mario Lanza who was Italian and much more exciting. "Hear my vocal" tells of the search by a cut- cost impresario for the elusive Irish tenor.Like "The Commitments" it presents the Irish every bit they really are rather than how the Americans cull to portray them - equally refugees from a John Ford movie. Ned Beatty is splendid equally the reluctant recluse, a human still capable of charming the birds out of the trees.He has the vocalisation of an affections - then he does.My personal favourite Miss Shirley Anne Field makes a very welcome advent,and the circle is closed by Mr Harold Behrens in a small role rounding off the connection to post - war BBC radio where he was a regular on "Ignorance is Elation". Appearing unheralded on the horizon out of nowhere - as it were - "Hear my Song" is a beautifully crafted little film,a masterpiece in miniature and anyone whose dearest for movies is more peel deep will adore it.
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One of the great unheralded movies of all time
I saw this flick at the Toronto International Pic Festival and idea I'd died and gone to sky. I screeched with laughter, and cried real tears. The audience reception was rapturous, one of the well-nigh responsive I've ever witnessed at the festival. Director Peter Chelsom was reduced to tears, and when Ned Beatty made a surprise appearance in his Joseph Locke fedora and cloak the crowd went crazy. Since then, I make a signal of watching this wonderful motion-picture show in the nighttime days of Feb, the dreariest part of a Toronto winter. It never fails to restore my spirit.
Every bit a final note, I recall Chelsom is a very talented director. Who can ever forget the prototype of those Irish gaelic lady owners crammed onto one couch? The film is filled with glorious visuals similar this one. I've liked every movie Chelsom has fabricated since, but he seems to get a bum rap from the printing. Nonetheless, he will always exist remembered for giving us this treasure.
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Overnice film
Unlike Larcher-2 who also has a annotate on this motion picture, l did see Josef Locke, l can remember my female parent took me to run across him when l was a young male child and was drawn to his blazon of sining.
It is well known that Mr Locke was a ladies man, but that did not detract from his voice, and Ned Beatty does a remarkable job of playing Josef Locke, dubbed in Mr Lockes ain voice.
This is a great moving-picture show, Adrian Dunbar plays his role equally a seedy agent well and David McCallum as the policeman ever trying to get Mr Locke is a gem...
The "molar" scene is a great laugh....Delight watch this film, if you know nothing of Mr Locke try to observe out about him first then you will enjoy it ameliorate, and empathise the title...
I give this film 8 out of 10...
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A wonderful little precious stone
This pic never got the attention or box office it deserved, but it's i of my all-time favorites. Ned Beatty is wonderful as Joe Locke, the exiled Irish singer returned to the stage by impresario Adrian Dunbar. A fiddling motion picture with heart, wit, and charm, definitely worth echo viewings.
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This film's plot is a work of fiction based on the very real Josef Locke, one of Republic of ireland'due south greatest tenors.
Micky O'Neill, a sleazy Irish entertainment promoter has about run his course offering pseudo-acts like Franc Cinatra. The Ryan family that owns the theater is almost ready to throw him out when they ask who his side by side performer is "Bing Crosby spelled with a One thousand"?, but Micky O'Neill comes up with the name of Josef Locke and the Ryan'south gasp every bit Josef Locke is supposedly out of the country, because of tax fraud or something. So Micky is given a reprieve until it becomes known that the Josef Locke he has booked is a fraud, Since his girlfriend's mother one time had a fling with Jo and has been duped past the fake Jo, Micky has been outcast past the Ryan family unit, his girlfriend and particularly his girlfriend'south mother. He hops a ride on a boat to Ireland where he meets up with his friend Fintan, a concert promoter, and the two of them ride through the Irish gaelic countryside in search of the real Josef Locke in an attempt to convince him to return to England to perform. When they find him, the Irish one-act really begins, and as well the Irish gaelic singing. The tenor phonation is spectacular and when Jo sings, women weep.......
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Information technology weaves some kind of spell...
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Spoiler warning! A superb low-budget fantasy motion-picture show about a down-at-heel order that just clings on by booking cheap, crummy look-a-like acts. When manager Mickey O' Neill (Dunbar) looks like losing his daughter, he decides to print her by booking the legendary tax-dodger Josef Locke and hopes to salvage his club into the deal. What he ends up with is not what he imagined, and the search begins...
We've watched this film a couple of times since it was first shown on Tv and information technology gets better with every viewing. The characters are great and the near magical atmosphere conjured up in some scenes is incredible. *Spoiler alert again* Locke's triumphant operation is the climax, and I admit to getting very touched by 'Count your Blessings', delivered in that wonderful tenor voice (supplied past Vernon Midgeley). What a film!
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A quirky offbeat charmer with fabulous music
The picture show is full of amuse and amusement and I love the plot-line. The characters are witty and warm and likeable. Information technology's quirky and some times the plot is difficult to follow, but again, the characters are then existent and likeable, they describe you in.
And then there'south the music. I never knew I liked Irish tenors until I saw this movie.
The only truly confusing thing is that it is hard to tell when the movie is fix. It seems near timeless and yet there is a definite timeframe referred to in the moving picture.
Adrian Dunbar is a wonderful role player and carries the film along, although Ned Beatty succeeds in stealing it half-way through! Tara Fitzgerald is underutilized every bit the romantic cause of the hero's journeying, but does well with what she's given. The actor who plays the hero's friend is also quite wonderful.
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an unexpected pleasure
The possessor of a low hire English music hall finds himself in hot water afterward booking a legendary (merely fraudulent) Irish tenor, prompting a desperate visit to the Emerald Island in search of the 18-carat article, not an easy assignment since no one has seen the man in 25 years. Maybe it makes a difference that the picture was made on the far side of the Atlantic Ocean, but it succeeds every bit a genuinely charming and disarming romantic comedy without the expected formula plotting or trendy visual hype, and (perhaps not surprisingly) without the box role benefit of brand name stars. The climax is somewhat overwrought, only past then director Peter Chelsum is working from a surplus of expert-natured blarney and local brogue, with some gorgeous Irish scenery added near every bit an afterthought. And where else can you expect to see a picture show hero declare his honey to a daughter while clutching a whippet?
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Y'all see those girls, Mickey. Would yous similar to be responsible for their dreams?
I have been watching Waking the Expressionless, and thought I would explore other works done past it's stars. I'chiliad starting with Eve (Tara Fitzgerald).
This is a keen ane for Ms. Fitzgerald, as we meet all she has to offer as she jumps out of bed with Adrian Dunbar, after he fails to say he loves her. Unfortunately, her part is lilliputian more than that, equally Dunbar is the star.
When you lot mention Irish tenors, people immediately recollect of Finbar Wright, Anthony Kearns, and Ronan Tynan. But long earlier, there was Joseph McLaughlin, ameliorate known as Josef Locke. This film is loosely based upon his life.
It really gets funny every bit Micky O'Neill (Dunbar) goes broke trying to false anybody out with Franc Cinatra, and so with a Mister X, who pretends to be Locke, and goes chasing around Ireland to find the real Josef Locke and bring him back to England. Locke is played by Ned Beatty.
He manages to come to the realization that he really loves Nancy (Fitzgerald), and gets Locke to return.
What an ending!
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I loved this motion-picture show
This picture was and then much fun. Such imagination went into it. The picture tells its story really well. The way in which the false Joseph Locke is discovered in the first half of the pic forced me to hit end, and become to the bath, because I laughed so difficult I virtually peed myself. All the major characters are wonderful, and the minor characters are better. When Beatty finally does appear every bit the existent Locke, his star quality takes the entire bandage to an even college level. I can't say more than without taking some of the fun abroad from you lot. Also, erstwhile "Human From Uncle" co-star, David McCallum, is marvelous in his minor supporting role. Very amusing film with surprising twists and turns and an incredible amount of whimsy.
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A mostly forgotten delight
I saw 'Hear My Song' every night for a calendar week when we showed information technology at the cinema I worked at in 1991. The audiences were small, only then they always were back then for British movies on limited budgets. 'Hear My Vocal' came out without whatsoever of the showy publicity that so many other movies did that year, there were no press packs or standees in the lobby, but still it knocked spots of the majority of movies I had to sit through that year.
I loved its sly, charming leading man Adrian Dunbar, and his best friend the then all-but- unknown James Nesbitt as Fin and their run a risk in search of a legend who (at that fourth dimension) I'd never even heard of.
The story follows the classic Hero's Journeying structure, and is filled with pathos, bang-up music and scenery, wonderful performances from a stellar cast and a wry very- British humour that nevertheless has me chuckling whenever I recount my favourite scenes.
I have a real soft spot for this flick and always listing it as one of my favourite British movies and force friends to watch my much sought afterwards R2 DVD copy whenever I tin. 'Funny Basic' which Chelsom also wrote and directed is a fantastic motion picture which rarely seems to get a showing on TV despite being ane of Jerry Lewis' finest films IMO.
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A keen, feel-skillful, warm-fuzzy kind of movie!
I stumbled on to this film by accident, and concluded upwardly admittedly loving it. The cast is first-rate in this tale of a music promoter who is trying to find a disgraced tenor from years ago. Ned Beatty is wonderful equally the tenor, and the comedy in the film just seems to click - such as the great scene with the moo-cow. This picture is highly recommended to anyone who is looking for a subconscious little precious stone to pass on to friends.
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A song worth hearing
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A cute piece of whimsy, Adrian Dunbar and James Nesbit steal scenes as the lovable oafs looking for Josef Locke, the dancing bouncers, the cow and the teeth, a lovely and underrated gem of a film I would recommend to anyone.
Absolutely mannerly.
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An awkward commencement, then
An awkward start, then a charming movie; part of the emerging genre of Irish fairy tales, complete with the mystical village of Tully More. One early scene has an entirely unnecessary bit of fairly explicit sex and brief nudity; this, like most of the first half-hour or so, flounders. The story finally hits its comic stride when the semi-hero goes off to Ireland to search for a reclusive tenor. The flick flattens out at the end, turning utterly sentimental and entirely predictable. Certainly worth watching, but basically overnice fluff.
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funny and off-beat
A peachy film with a lot of little bully, random touches. I've watched this film many times, and e'er find it both funny and strange. Definitely worth renting.
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Never boils over, just a centre warming hug for your soul.
More than than a flake of blarney brings a sham of a singer to do a good deed bringing a smile to any heart. Hear My Song equally a tune, is certain to haunt most listeners for a long fourth dimension, even if they can non retrieve annihilation past the first line. Neat rainy day fare, perfect when served with Irish Breakfast Tea and simply a drop or two of Irish Whiskey. John Patrick
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Irish expatriates in LIVERPOOL?!?!
This is i of my family'south best favorites, and I am then happy it Finally made it to DVD. Adrian Dunbar is fantastic as the slippery concert promoter who drags cheap acts into his Liverpool society. Possibly Tara Fitzgerald's all-time role. Ned Beatty makes a wonderful Irish tenor, although clearly lip-syncing. (Original Josef Locke CDs notwithstanding available for those who want the existent matter, more adequately provisioned with hearts and flowers.) Maybe the reason I love this movie So much are the supporting actors, from Dunbar's two tubby bouncer/idea-men, to Locke'due south original English redundancy band, to his incomparable Irish gaelic cronies: Favorite line-"Sure, I'd rather be in jail, than in love again!"
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Sometimes placidity, sometimes laugh out loud comedy
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Jolly fun equally we become to see and hear Franc Sinatra, plus the potential of seeing Bing Krosby "with a "One thousand"" as a disgruntled Franc Sinatra concert goer calls out from their seat.
A...ummm....'crafty' young music promoter must go on his girlfriend happy by finding the reclusive and out of country tenor Josef Locke who had romanced her mother (voted "Miss Dairy Goodness of 1952") back in the day and wishes to see him once again.
The promoter heads for Ireland to detect Locke and convince him to do just one more functioning in England.
Problem is Locke cant come dorsum to England because of a huge tax debt and a very eager and waiting tax collector.
Effect = much fun and quite a flake of excitement.
Fine performances by all.
I saw this film once or twice about a decade ago, so please forgive and small diversions from the bodily plot due to memory.
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A pure delight
After viewing this film, and I have done so several times, I never stop being delighted past information technology. Many modest things missed on first viewing, bring a smiling to my lips over and over again. The sense of humor, subtle and non so subtle is a pure delight. It is very well acted, and visually beautiful to look at. This is a small-scale film that leaves you lot feeling wonderful.
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