42nd Street (1933)
Julian Marsh, an sucessful Broadway director, produces a new show, inspite of his poor health. The money comes from a rich old man, who is in love with the star of the show, Dorothy Brock. But she doesn't reply his love, because she is still in love with her old partner. (imdb)
Genres: Romance, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Directed By: Lloyd Bacon
Written By: Rian James, Bradford Ropes
Starring: Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, George Brent, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Allen Jenkins, Ruby Keeler, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers
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Some of the kaleidoscopic camera work is quite remarkable, but the plot is really flimsy and rather fucked up.
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A charming movie about the production of a musical that happens to have a small musical at the end. A movie about stage musicals and their production can become a little too meta or inside baseball for the uninitiated. However, the interesting cast of characters and simple but sweet plot was entertaining enough as a story before the dessert of the musical numbers. The star of the movie is the final numbers, but the rest of the films has a surprising amount of laughs and enough heart to be a win
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The last 15 minutes are such an all time great musical delight that you kind of forget the first 75 are little more than a pleasant distraction that really isn't all that funny. However it's one of those pre-Code movies that plays so fast and loose with implicit and explicit sexuality that you really wonder what the next 30 years of American cinema would have looked like if not for Hays.
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"42nd Street" is a very pleasant musical, a big part of which isn't about musical numbers but plot and character evolution. There are times that it isn't quite clear who the protagonist is, if there is one, and that works to the film's merit: the main roles all get their stories told in turns. From an acting perspective Warner Baxter shines as the sick, shouting but committed director. Lastly, Busby Berkeley's musical numbers during the finale are marvelous and will please all fans of the genre.
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The ending is grand and catchy and spectacular and campy beyond belief and I love it, it's so good in fact it mostly makes up for the mediocre film that precedes it. Pretty much the first great Hollywood Musical. -3 for a brief use of brownface.
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Classic and quintessential. Cosmopolitan and escapist to be sure, but commendably brings the glamor and decadence of show business down to a human level. And then it bursts into rhythmic bliss. The final act is an astonishing feat of song and dance, cinematography and editing. Just an absolutely delightful film, with a few catchy tunes and a bit of pre-code sauciness.
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Lots of Ruby Keeler being super cute at least, but otherwise pretty dull. Not even the Berkeley numbers felt all that inspired (relatively speaking), and i'm not sure how much this was even trying to be funny.
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themadelf66 | 68 33% |
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There may be better more profound works of art in the world of cinema, but few are as enjoyable as 42nd Street. There is too much eye candy in this film, Berkeley's kaleidoscopetic choreography and the creation small set transforming into of a life size replica of Manhattan'S 42nd Street along with some of Dubin & Warren's best songs. If you can't handle early musical 30's film acting (it's an acquired taste), watch at least the last act online to see the spectacle.
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My first Busby Berkeley movie and for a while I was wondering, "What's the big deal?" then we got to last twenty minutes and I thought, "There's the big deal!" Some incredible stuff going on there, for sure.
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Veteran stars such as Warner Baxter and Bebe Daniels give strong performances in the main roles as the story starts, but it's the young and fresh cast of Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler that ends up taking this one home, and starts off a successful succession of musicals for the two. This one had a impressive cast regardless as nearly everyone that had a part here was, is or became a star at one point or another. Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee and George E. Stone was excellent in their parts.
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another backstage story. final show and Busby Berkeley's choreography are amazing.
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The first half was pretty horrible.
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ruby keeler reminds me of anna faris
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Dat ending. Mostly enjoyable, kinda hokey at times though. The dance numbers are really fun to watch but the dialogue is often bad, yet the story is actually better than most musicals. Dick Powell was pretty awesome and nice supporting role for Ginger Rogers.
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Singing n' dancing. Not my kind of party, but I enjoyed the backstage drama and a couple of the well choreographed acts.
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Although this contains quite a few things of interest the Busby Berkely numbers, the appearance of Ginger Rogers, Shuffle off to Buffalo etc overall it seemed quite dated and not the best of its kind.
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