Footlight Parade

Name: Footlight Parade
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Musical
Released: October 21, 1933
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Claire Dodd, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Gordon Westcott, Guy Kibbee

1933

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: October 21, 1933 | Passed

Starring: Claire Dodd, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Gordon Westcott, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Ruth Donnelly

Summary: Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Musical

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 104 min

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100

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A great supporting cast and Bacon's well-judged direction help make Footlight Parade one of the greatest of the Berkeley extravaganzas. Read full review

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Mick LaSalle

Cagney, the film's best asset, is irrepressible. [07 May 2006, p.34]

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Michael Wilmington

Busby Berkeley's finest hour comes in this flabbergasting Warners musical, with James Cagney as a Berkeley-like choreographer who directs, for a string of Broadway theaters, a series of "preview" dance numbers that blow your socks off. Read full review

Pauline Kael

It has some silly, yet irresistibly wonderful examples of Busby Berkeley's pinwheel choreography.

Staff (Not Credited)

By far the best part of the film is its first hour, fast, furious and funny as Cagney sets out to convince his nervous backers that his idea for live prologues to accompany talkies can be made to work. Read full review

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Footlight Parade is not as good as 42nd Street and Gold Diggers but the three socko numbers here eclipse some of the preceding Busby Berkeley staging for spectacle. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

It is not until Footlight Parade has been struggling through its plot for more than an hour that the fragments of song, costumed nymphs and technical virtuosity are finally integrated in a complete performance. Read full review

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