It's hard to judge a short that was cut from 37 minutes to 17 minutes for U.S. showings as a two-reel short. A DREAM OF LOVE uses sets that look suspiciously like left-overs from a Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy musical.
IAN COLIN as Franz Liszt lifts his tenor voice in song very effectively (that is--whomever dubbed the song for Mr. Colin) but the story is a trite one about an ill-fated love affair smacking of class snobbery by the young woman's father. At the end, an aged Franz Liszt (played by Bertram Wallis who looks nothing like Mr. Colin), clutches a rose sent to him for a typically sentimental ending.
In certain shots, Mr. Colin looks a lot like the Errol Flynn of "Captain Blood" (similar wig, similar profile) which probably makes his singing seem even more mythical.
IAN COLIN as Franz Liszt lifts his tenor voice in song very effectively (that is--whomever dubbed the song for Mr. Colin) but the story is a trite one about an ill-fated love affair smacking of class snobbery by the young woman's father. At the end, an aged Franz Liszt (played by Bertram Wallis who looks nothing like Mr. Colin), clutches a rose sent to him for a typically sentimental ending.
In certain shots, Mr. Colin looks a lot like the Errol Flynn of "Captain Blood" (similar wig, similar profile) which probably makes his singing seem even more mythical.