This is considered one of the best and well-known of the Busby Berkeley films with the cute-and-likable Ruby Keeler making it winsome.
She and the rest of the cast, with the exception of a loud and obnoxious Warner Baxter, were fun to watch. So were all the women in here, showing a surprising amount of skin. Had this been made some months later under the new Hays' Code, that skin would have been covered up.
At any rate, for a musical I thought the film was a bit too dialog-oriented. Up until the last 20 minutes, it was too much talk and not enough of the dance numbers. The latter did occur but they were too short.
Only in the last 20 minutes, as seemed to be the routine in the Berkeley films, did we see the extravagant production numbers. The finale is terrific, too. "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Shuffle Off To Buffalo," and "42nd Street" are all great song-and-dance numbers and look just great on DVD. The disc is a notable improvement over the VHS.
Overall, it's a good film with interesting characters and, if you have to patience to wait, a tremendous musical finale.
She and the rest of the cast, with the exception of a loud and obnoxious Warner Baxter, were fun to watch. So were all the women in here, showing a surprising amount of skin. Had this been made some months later under the new Hays' Code, that skin would have been covered up.
At any rate, for a musical I thought the film was a bit too dialog-oriented. Up until the last 20 minutes, it was too much talk and not enough of the dance numbers. The latter did occur but they were too short.
Only in the last 20 minutes, as seemed to be the routine in the Berkeley films, did we see the extravagant production numbers. The finale is terrific, too. "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Shuffle Off To Buffalo," and "42nd Street" are all great song-and-dance numbers and look just great on DVD. The disc is a notable improvement over the VHS.
Overall, it's a good film with interesting characters and, if you have to patience to wait, a tremendous musical finale.