New Article: William Alwyn’s ‘The Cure for Love Waltz’ in Robert Donat & Walter Greenwood’s film The Cure for Love (1949/50)

I have been looking for about a decade for the sheet-music for William Alwyn’s waltz which he composed for Donat and Greenwood’s postwar film about Jack Hardacre, a sergeant in the Eighth Army who returns home to Lancaster for his first home leave in three years. Hardacre knows very well that he has left some things in a mess while he was away (Greenwood’s play had an earlier title of The Sergeant’s Mess). Though Jack is a decorated war-hero, he finds it very difficult to sort out his domestic problems. I at last found a copy of the sheet-music just before Easter AND a recording of the Waltz on YouTube, so have now been able to write this medium-length piece about the music written for the film and about the sad fact that it is very difficult to view a copy of The Cure for Love – which I think is well-worth watching.

See: William Alwyn’s The Cure for Love Waltz, from Walter Greenwood & Robert Donat’s Film, The Cure for Love (1949) *

Enjoy! – Best Chris.