Finally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed.
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04/24/09
Top Hat (1935)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:6
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8/10
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
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Top CriticThis 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 CriticBecause 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 CriticAll the minor players are such skilled comedians that they are able to extract merriment from this none too original comedy of errors.
05/20/03
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