The Unfinished Dance
Young Meg Merlin is heartbroken when prima ballerina La Darina arrives to rival her idol. So Meg devises a plan but pulls the wrong switch and sends the prima ballerina into a career-ending plunge to the floor below.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 13, 2011
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cyd Charisse, Karin Booth, Margaret O'Brien, Danny Thomas & Esther Dale | |
Directed by | Henry Koster | |
Screenwriting by | Myles Connolly | |
Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 23
[Margaret] O'Brien imbues [her character] with the rawness and roughness of a child in need of direction, but her fortitude is never in doubt.
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Film Comment Magazine
Saccharine.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Rating: B- --
The Hollywood version reduces the great French film to standard fare.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Description by OLDIES.com:
Young Meg Merlin, who hero-worships a dancer at her elite ballet school, is heartbroken when prima ballerina La Darina arrives to rival her idol. So Meg devises a plan. One little tug on a light switch while La Darina dances Swan Lake will ruin the performance. But Meg pulls the wrong switch -- the one that opens a stage trapdoor -- and sends the prima ballerina into a career-ending plunge to the floor below.
Margaret O'Brien and Cyd Charisse play two generations of dancers in this lavish Technicolor film that combines a tragic story of guilt and broken dreams with the opulence of ballet (among the elegant visuals: the mirrored floor that emulates the swans' watery domain). A must-see for fans of dance films.
Margaret O'Brien and Cyd Charisse play two generations of dancers in this lavish Technicolor film that combines a tragic story of guilt and broken dreams with the opulence of ballet (among the elegant visuals: the mirrored floor that emulates the swans' watery domain). A must-see for fans of dance films.
Product Description:
An aspiring ballerina begins following a prima ballerina hoping that she will become her replacement. Unfortunately, another dancer is chosen, causing the determined twinkle-toes to cause a little accident to destroy the usurper's career. It works and the hapless ballerina's career is destroyed. In the end, the conniving one atones for her treachery and the two become fast friends. Danny Thomas makes his feature film debut in this musical.
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- Sales Rank: 16,509
- UPC: 883316338735
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