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The Great Caruso 109 minutes, US (1951),
Average user rating (4.4 / 17 votes)

Realising that his voice can earn him fame and fortune, Enrico Caruso proceeds to take the opera world by storm. Biopic directed by Richard Thorpe and starring the great tenor Mario Lanza

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The Great Caruso: Old school Hollywood had a habit of making sanitised biopics. In the Cole Porter film Night And Day, the great songwriter's homosexuality was conveniently overlooked. And in Richard Thorpe's The Great Caruso, screenwriters Sonya Levien and William Ludwig managed to completely ignore the opera star's huge sexual appetite and extra-marital affairs...
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