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Just as Cagney is able to infuse the whole film with pedal-to-the-metal energy through sheer charisma, so is Berkeley able to momentarily silence criticisms—of political incorrectness (this is pre-Code 1930s, after all), of racial insensitivity, of sexism—through his taste for astonishing visual extravagance and exhilarating "can-you-top-this" chutzpah. Rarely has such artistic obsessiveness been made so damn irresistible.

One of the quintessential films to be choreographed by Busby Berkeley and certainly one of the best casts to grace a Warner Brothers musical from this period (James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler), FOOTLIGHT PARADE is also something of a surrealist marvel.