The Great Caruso Crowther says, "All of the silliest, sappiest clichés of musical biography have been written by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig into the script. And Richard Thorpe has directed in a comparably mawkish, bathetic style." Nearly 40 years after its release, Caruso's son, Enrico, Jr., reminisced that, "Vocally and musically "The Great Caruso" ...has helped many young people discover opera, and even become singers themselves."He added that, "I can think of no other tenor, before or since Mario Lanza, who could have risen with comparable success to the challenge of playing Caruso in a screen biography." The film has also been
Pietro Caruso one of Caruso's own lieutenants, but had been arrested seven days earlier as a secret agent working for the Allies through OSS. After Italy's liberation from the German occupation, Caruso was tried for his numerous crimes, sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad of Polizia di Stato in the courtyard of the Fort Bravetta in Rome. Pietro Caruso Pietro Caruso (born 10 November 1899 in Maddaloni – died 22 September 1944 in Rome) was an Italian Fascist and head of the Italian police during the final part of World War II. Together with Herbert Kappler, the German Gestapo