Swing Time
A glorious songburst of gaiety and laughter!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 11, 2019
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers | |
Performer: | Victor Moore, Landers Stevens, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick, Georges Metaxa & Betty Furness | |
Directed by | George Stevens | |
Edited by | Henry Berman | |
Screenwriting by | Howard Lindsay | |
Composition by | Jerome Kern | |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
Director of Photography: | David Abel |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1936 -
Best Original Song: Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
Has Astaire and Rogers' pinnacle production number: 'Never Gonna Dance.'
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LarsenOnFilm
Another winner for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers combo. It's smart, modern, and impressive in every respect, from its boy-loses-girl background to its tunefulness, dancipation, production quality and general high standards.
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Variety
Rating: 4/4 --
Of all of the places the movies have created, one of the most magical and enduring is the universe of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Here we have a movie featuring an iconic screen duo, a legendary director, and a horrifically racist sequence.
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FanboyNation.com
Swing Time could do with a lot more dancing and a lot less plot; or, if that's too much to ask of the principals, just a lot less plot. However... Even if Swing Time had twice as much plot, it would still be worth seeing.
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Maclean's Magazine
One of the best of the Astaire-Rogers musicals, and one that shouldn't have worked as well as it did.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Top Hat remains their masterpiece, but this one's a stellar choice, with some of the most intricate dance routines found in any of the Fred'n'Ginger pairings.
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Film Frenzy
Product Description:
The fifth sublime teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, SWING TIME is regarded by many as their finest film. The tenuous plot, which mainly serves to connect the brilliant dance numbers, concerns John "Lucky" Garnett (Astaire), a gambler and professional dancer. When Garnett arrives late to his wedding, his prospective father-in-law implements a punishment, insisting that Garnett raise $25,000 before he can marry Margaret Watson (Betty Furness). Still in tails, he hops a freight for New York, where he gets involved in a scrape with dance instructor Penny Carrol (Rogers). After following her to the dance studio, Lucky poses as a neophyte in need of training. Penny's boss Gordon (Eric Blore), happens to witness Lucky's incompetence, in the "Pick Yourself Up" number and is about to fire the young woman for nonperformance when Lucky launches into a dazzling display of terpsichorean skill. Impressed, the studio owner offers to get them an audition at the famed Silver Sandal nightclub. Arguably the peak of the Astaire-Rogers partnership, the dancers' nearly perfect blending of song, dance, wit, and decor only improves with time. Especially memorable are the subtly erotic tempo shifts of "Never Gonna Dance" and the coruscating technical command of "Bojangles of Harlem," a tribute to the great African-American tap dancer.
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- UPC: 715515231114
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