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In 1958, the living musicians who actually originally created Dixieland Jazz were getting old; the younger artists wanted to be identified with those masters, and an historic record needed to be made ... This is that historic recording!
Possibly the single most astonishing incarnation of a fictional character that there has ever been!
When an unrivaled wit, a good sense of humor, and a musical bent are not enough to make Trilby his, Svengali turns to a most unusual, almost supernatural ability.
Seeming to lack any civility whatsoever while electrifying everything around him with a barely controlled energy, Bendix’s character appears to be more beast than human. That is until he encounters Susan Hayward and all the world’s energy seems to dissipate for a literally breath-taking moment.
A family practitioner and his psychiatrist wife have a son named Tony, “a miserable little scrag” with a “diabolical habit of placing on pictorial record everything which attracts his attention.” Take a realistic drawing with a little biological correctness, mix in a little barley water, and before you know it you have "the Karl Marx Brothers"?