A tedious musical comedy embedded in a routine story like a fly in celluloid.
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02/17/09
The Broadway Melody (1928)
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Reviews Counted:3
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Rotten:1
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Consensus: The Broadway Melody is interesting as an example of an early Hollywood musical, but otherwise, it's essentially bereft of appeal for modern audiences.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Two sisters come to the big city to try their luck on Broadway. The elder sibling has a fiance waiting for her there, but when he sees the younger one, whom he remembers only as a little girl, he... [More]
Starring: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Jed Prouty
Director: Harry Beaumont
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Top CriticExcellent bits of sound workmanship are that of camera and mike following Page and the heavy along the dance floor to pick up their conversation as they glide.
03/01/07
Top CriticThe staging is wooden, the story insipid, and the dialogue sequences mostly painful, but the film's integration of song, dance, and story was a clear narrative advance over the music pictures being released by Warner Brothers and Fox.
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