Thursday, 16 October 2014

Dance over sustance

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Directed by Stanley Donen and star Gene Kelly this film also features Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and Jean Hagen. As silent films are about to be replaced by talkies one star tries to fend off the attentions of his long time female co-star.

Let's be honest here most of the time the plot of this film is a tenuous at best excuse for the lavish song and mostly dance routines. Often the dance routines pretty much take over as the spin out massive sequences which are really impressively staged with some serious scale. While the story may leave something to be desired what we do get is always entertaining and nearly always highly impressive.


4/5

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