The Rogue Song
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lionel Barrymore
Lawrence Tibbett
Catherine Dale Owen
Nance O'neil
Judith Vosselli
Ullrich Haupt
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Yegor, tribal chieftain of a band of mountain bandits in southern Russia, meets and falls in love with Princess Vera, who is attracted to his singing. He learns, however, that his sister, Nadja, has been betrayed by Prince Serge, Vera's brother, and, kidnaping her, he takes her to his mountain fortress for revenge. She causes him to be captured, but when he sings to her as he is being flogged, she realizes the sincerity of his love and orders him released. Though the lovers part, it is with the hope that in the future their happiness will be realized.
Director
Lionel Barrymore
Cast
Lawrence Tibbett
Catherine Dale Owen
Nance O'neil
Judith Vosselli
Ullrich Haupt
Elsa Alsen
Florence Lake
Lionel Belmore
Wallace Macdonald
Kate Price
H. A. Morgan
Burr Mcintosh
James Bradbury Jr.
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Crew
Adrian
Margaret Booth
John Colton
Charles Dorian
Cedric Gibbons
Clifford Grey
Percy Hilburn
Franz Lehár
Frances Marion
Paul Neal
Madame Albertina Rasch
Wells Root
C. Edgar Schoenbaum
Douglas Shearer
Herbert Stothart
Dimitri Tiomkin
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Actor
Quotes
Trivia
Just prior to release, scenes with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were filmed interspersed throughout the film to increase box-office appeal.
Although no print of this film is known to exist, the complete 90-minute soundtrack does. MGM transferred early sound discs to tape and approximately half of this material was released on LP in the early 1980s - on an obscure label. This included parts of the dialogue but was mainly the musical numbers. This is the only Laurel and Hardy "feature" film no longer available. Please check your attic.
A brief Technicolor clip in poor quality survives of Laurel and Hardy involved with a bear in a cave.
This is the film that contains the infamous scene where Lawrence Tibbett sings while he is tied between two posts and whipped.
This film was Metropolitan Opera baritone Lawrence Tibbett's movie debut.
Notes
Lawrence Tibbett received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in this film.
