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The Broken Melody is a film of genre Drama directed by Bernard Vorhaus released in USA on 30 october 1934 with John Garrick
The Broken Melody (1934)
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Add to a movie listThe Broken Melody is a 1934 British musical drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring John Garrick, Margot Grahame, Merle Oberon and Austin Trevor. A composer kills his wife's lover and, having escaped from the prison on Devil's Island, returns to France and writes an opera about the experience.
Actors
John Garrick
(Paul Verlaine)
Margot Grahame
(Simone St. Cloud)
Merle Oberon
(Germaine Brissard)
Austin Trevor
(Pierre Falaise)
Charles Carson
(Colonel Dubonnet)
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