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The Broken Melody is a 1938 Australian drama film directed by Ken G. Hall and starring Lloyd Hughes, based on a best-selling novel by F. J. Thwaites . Premiere of The Broken Melody. Synopsis. John Ainsworth helps win a rowing race for Sydney University against Melbourne University.
This guy scores his own opera, the big-time and his ex back...and all in 79 minutes!! Based on the book of the same name by Fred J. Thwaites, Lloyd Hughes stars in this romantic drama as a loner, a dejected outcast who wins a regatta and suddenly discovers he has a musical talent.
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John Ainsworth helps win a rowing race for Sydney University against Melbourne University. While celebrating at a nightclub, he demonstrates his skill with the violin with one of his original compositions. He also flirts with a young woman, Ann Brady, to the displeasure of a crook, Webster.
John Ainsworth helps win a rowing race for Sydney University against Melbourne University. While celebrating at a nightclub, he demonstrates his skill with the violin with one of his original compositions. He also flirts with a young woman, Ann Brady, to the displeasure of a crook, Webster. A brawl results and John is expelled from university. John's sheep farmer father – who is disdainful ...
He was best known for his first work The Broken Melody, which was adapted into a 1938 film.
Overview. John Ainsworth helps win a rowing race for Sydney University against Melbourne University. While celebrating at a nightclub, he demonstrates his skill with the violin with one of his original compositions. He also flirts with a young woman, Ann Brady, to the displeasure of a crook, Webster.
Nearly all of Cinesound’s films were made under the cloud of the Depression, from 1932 to 1940, but very few refer to it directly. The Broken Melody does it in the usual Cinesound way – with back projection, in studio – but audiences in Sydney in 1938 would have recognised its veracity.
