A sort of feature-length institutional commercial, it mixes long stretches of performances by top artist of the day on the Carnegie Hall stage, with a finely handled melodrama, about an obssessive Irish mother who practically raises her son in the hall, where she works. She wants him to become a pianist performing the classical music he grew up listening to, but the young man has other plans. In the DVD released by Bel Canto it is evident the copy was reconstructed from different sources: the worst images come from sections that seem to have been cut to reduce the feature to less than two hours. One of the few opportunities Ulmer had to work with a larger budget.
Review of Carnegie Hall
