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The Broadway Melody

United States

1929

110 Min

Color, Black and White

English

Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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DIR Harry Beaumont

PROD Harry Rapf, Irving Thalberg, Lawrence Weingarten

SCR Edmund Goulding, Norman Houston, James Gleason

DP John Arnold

CAST Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson

ED Sam Zimbalist

PROD DES Cedric Gibbons

MUSIC Nacio Herb Brown

SOUND Douglas Shearer

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MarcH

17Oct11

Breezy and fascinating for about 30 minutes, then it deflates. Great score, though. There are better early sound musicals out there (Sally, Sunnyside Up, Showgirl in Hollywood, King of Jazz).

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Dimitris Psachos

24Apr11

Why make a fuss about its inexcusable and highly predictable screenplay? Beaumont may not have an eyeful for...anything (!) and yet, that doesn't stop Bessie Love from being simultaneously sassy and rigorous up until her breaking point where I can forgive it all, including the then unimaginable musical numbers for a more or less...early dramedy?

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Arcanus

9Mar11

Rubbishy plot but great musical numbers.

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Lucas Lacámara

19Jun10

Simply a hackneyed excuse to have sound in a film. No more. No less.

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