The tag line states this is a story of love and desire. By the time it ends, you could also call it a sweet tale of revenge. The way I see it, the fountain of youth discovered by Viennese Doctor Vingelberg (Eugène Lourié) was bogus, or if it was real, Dr. Humphrey Baxter (Dick Smothers) teased it's existence for the express purpose of destroying the marriage between Caroline Coates (Sharon Gless) and tennis champion Alan Brodie (James Carroll Jordan). The idea of maintaining youthfulness for two hundred years was too great a temptation for either of the two to give it up for the other, so they both secretly drank the magic serum and replaced it with flavored water. The twist for this story doesn't rely at all on whether the serum was real or not, only that the deception employed by all three principal characters would have it's consequences felt by the other parties.
2 Reviews
Death becomes her in 24 minutes.
Sleepin_Dragon21 February 2016
Caroline Coates is a capable and ambitious news reporter, one day she is visited at work by Scientist, Doctor Humphrey Baxter. He informs her the pair are to be married, she's bemused.
Youth from Vienna is such a mixed bag, imaginative, fun and intriguing in parts, and yet cheap, hammy and woeful in others. If you are into floaty light fairy tales you'll probably quite enjoy it, if you're more into the mystery/suspense genre then you will find it pointless and rather silly.
Fun performances from both Dick Smothers and the beautiful Sharon Gless.
You will love or hate it. 4/10
Youth from Vienna is such a mixed bag, imaginative, fun and intriguing in parts, and yet cheap, hammy and woeful in others. If you are into floaty light fairy tales you'll probably quite enjoy it, if you're more into the mystery/suspense genre then you will find it pointless and rather silly.
Fun performances from both Dick Smothers and the beautiful Sharon Gless.
You will love or hate it. 4/10
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