42nd Street (Blu-ray)
When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 21, 2015
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Warner Baxter & Bebe Daniels | |
| Performer: | George Brent, Una Merkel, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers & Guy Kibbee | |
| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon | |
| Screenplay by | Rian James & James Seymour | |
| Composition by | Al Dubin & Harry Warren | |
| Art Direction by | Jack Okey | |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck | |
| Director of Photography: | Sol Polito |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Film benefits from great musical numbers and its portrait of the show's director, one of the few well-developed gay characters in a 1930's Hollywood film.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The strength of a musical is its songs, and this film had a mixed bag.
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Goatdog's Movies
Oddly enough, in 42nd Street, Warner Baxter is a rather convincing stage director, Bebe Daniels has a surprisingly good voice and a fair sense of comedy, and the dancing and song routines are introduced with some imagination.
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Vanity Fair
Rating: B --
One can't say enough good things about what Busby Berkeley did for the musical.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Of Golden Age musicals, 42nd Street is about as close to the archetype as they come.
Filmcritic.com
This 1933 film is the best known of the Warner Brothers Depression-era musicals, though it doesn't compare in dash and extravagance to later entries in the cycle.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 7/10 --
...the film that practically invented every backstage musical cliché we know today...remains a remarkable achievement for a film over seven decades old.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Meet a dewy-eyed ingenue, a gee-whiz tenor, stuck-up stars, hard-up producers, brassy blondes and "shady ladies from the '80s." They're all denizens of 42nd Street, belting out ageless Harry Warren/Al Dubin songs and tapping out Busby Berkeley's sensational Depression-lifting production numbers.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 8,212
- UPC: 888574286286
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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