Anno di produzione: 1956

Stato del film: Catalogo

Paese d'origine: USA
Location del set: Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA Newcastle, Maine, USA Hollywood, California, USA
Genere: Musical Romance
Lingue: English
Plot: Billy is sent down "from above" for one day to try and make amends for mistakes he made in life. Billy worked at the carnival running the carousel, which is where he met Julie. The carny owner Mrs. Mullen fires him because of jealousy, and he and Julie get married. Billy gets into bad habits when he can't find a job and they are forced to live a meager existence on Julie's factory pay. When Julie tells him she's pregnant, he feels compelled to somehow find a way to support his family, but the only option seems to be falling back into crime with his old pal Jigger. Newlywed, unemployed, bored and having to live off of his wife's cousin Nettie, Billy Bigelow falls on his knife after trying to flee from an ill-fated robbery attempt. Unlike his unsavory cohort, Bigelow never wanted to kill Mr. Bascombe, the cotton mill owner. Bigelow only wanted half of the $3,000 Bascombe was reportedly carrying. He wanted to use the money to allow him, his wife and the unborn son he was expecting to make a new start in San Francisco. After he dies his wife, Julie, actually delivers a daughter, Louise. Bigelow is regulated to a lower realm of heaven where he spends eternity polishing stars. In spite of waving the right to go back for one day when he arrived in heaven, Bigelow convinces the Starkeeper to allow him to go back to Earth to attend his daughter's high school graduation. Any spirit that makes it to heaven can go back to Earth for one day to take care of unfinished business. As the daughter of an unemployed carnival barker who died in a robbery attempt, Louise has been taunted by the other children in her coastal Maine town her whole life. She hopes to leave the town to become an actress. Bigelow attempts to give Louise pride in her family by telling her how good looking her father was and how good he was as a carousel barker. But Barker badly messes that up, actually slapping Louise when trying to give her a star that he had taken from heaven. Not giving up on trying to influence her, Bigelow can only whisper for her to pay attention to what the speaker at her high school graduation is saying about not letting their parents' successes and failures hold them back.
Colonna sonora: - Music: 'Richard Rodgers' (qv) (all songs) - Lyrics: 'Oscar Hammerstein II' (qv) (all songs) - "The Carousel Waltz" Performed by 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra, conducted by 'Alfred Newman' (qv) - "Mister Snow" Performed by Barbara Ruick - "If I Loved You" Performed by 'Shirley Jones (I)' (qv), 'Gordon MacRae' (qv) - "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" Performed by Claramae Turner, Barbara Ruick, Chorus - "Soliloquy" Performed by 'Gordon MacRae' (qv) - "When the Children Are Asleep" Performed by Robert Rounseville, Barbara Ruick - "This Was A Real Nice Clambake" Performed by Babara Ruick, Claramae Turner, Robert Rounseville, Cameron Mitchell, Chorus - "Stonecutters Cut It On Stone" Performed by Cameron Mitchell, Chorus - "What's the Use of Wondrin'" Performed by 'Shirley Jones (I)' (qv), Chorus - "You'll Never Walk Alone" Performed by 'Shirley Jones (I)' (qv), Claramae Turner - "Louise's Ballet" Performed by 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra, conducted by 'Alfred Newman' (qv) - "If I Loved You (Reprise)" Performed by 'Gordon MacRae' (qv) - "You'll Never Walk Alone (Reprise)" Performed by Chorus
Visti censura internazionale: Finland:K-8 USA:Unrated
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