Arguably the classiest and funniest of the RKO Astaire-Rogers musicals.
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04/24/09
Top Hat (1935)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:36
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: A glamorous and enthralling Depression-era diversion, Top Hat is nearly flawless, with acrobatics by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers that make the hardest physical stunts seem light as air.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: A musical comedy full of high style, romance, mistaken identity... and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing and singing 11 of Irving Berlin's best songs. When Jerry Travers meets lovely Dale... [More]
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick
Director: Mark Sandrich
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Reviews for Top Hat
Top CriticIf you want only one Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is obligatory.
04/24/09
Top CriticFinally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed.
04/24/09
Top CriticThe fourth pairing of Astaire-Rogers is one of their best and RKO top grosser of the year.
03/21/08
This one can't miss and the reasons are three -- Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin's 11 songs and sufficient comedy between numbers to hold the film together.
01/11/08
Top CriticThis 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.
01/11/08
Top Critic
Top Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it.
06/24/06
The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.
02/09/06
Because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.
01/20/06
Top CriticThe plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.
09/07/05
Top Critic...even after seventy years, the same elements delight us all over again. Good songs, good dancing, and good stars never go out of style.
08/03/05
Every musical number works, and the mistaken identity plot is pleasant enough, even if there's too much emphatic dithering from the supporting players towards the end.
08/01/05
No review available.
07/07/05
One of the best of the Astaire-Rogers best.
12/28/04
Fred and Ginger's best.
12/21/04
Heaven.
09/17/04
No review available.
07/28/04
No review available.
06/11/04
The quintessential Fred-and-Ginger vehicle… typically escapist Depression-era fare… [but] whenever Fred and Ginger are in motion, the magic is timeless.
12/26/03
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