Wonder Bar (1934)
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane she kills him. (imdb)
Genres: Romance, Drama, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Directed By: Lloyd Bacon
Written By: Earl Baldwin, Karl Farkas, Geza Herczeg, Robert Katscher
Starring: Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Kay Francis, Dolores del Rio, Ricardo Cortez, Al Jolson
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Wonder Bar belongs to 4 collections
1. Pre-Code (public: moderated by edsu - 8 stars)
2. The Films Mentioned In American Grindhouse (2010) (public: moderated by Coheed - 2 stars)
3. Heaven (public: moderated by BeeDub)
4. Hollywood Musicals: Year By Year (private: djross)
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| Jul 13, 2017 | filmcricket | 49 34% |
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Robart | 50 42% |
| Feb 18, 2016 | chair39 | 40 32% |
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| Dec 14, 2015 |  |
Meowfresh | 9 90% |
| May 13, 2015 | preppy-3 | 30 18% |
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| Mar 03, 2013 | PUNQ | 50 78% |
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That Busby Berkeley dance number is a stroke of genius! The rest however is not. Well, some of Al Jolson's stand-up was fine and the blackface number is of wonderfully bad taste inserting just about every stereotypical portrayal into it, but the plots was fairly average and the non-Berkeley musical numbers was filmed as it if was a old TV broadcast and really didn't look very good. But it kept the pace up with intense acting shifting from one dilemma to the other. Oh, and... "Boys will be boys!"
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| May 26, 2011 | strangelime | 65 19% |
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imdb | 67 59% |
| Mar 27, 2011 | NRM01 | 79 97% |
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| Mar 06, 2010 |  |
jeff_v | 70 63% |
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A catalog of pre-Production Code amorality (a character gets away with murder, nearly everyone is having some kind of affair), raciness (including a blatant homosexual gag that had me guffawing) and alas, a Jolson blackface number. Story is sub-Grand Hotel intrigue, but the film really soars during Busby Berkeley's musical setpiece. It's like the gates of heaven opening up.
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| Average Percentile 53.81% from 10 Ratings |  |
