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The Gold Diggers of 1933
The Gold Diggers of 1933 is a film of quarters, and not just the giant coins that cover the chorus line’s modesty. Four wisecracking kids are dying to make it on Broadway: Joan Blondell is a singer, Ginger Rogers a sex kitten, Ruby Keeler a sweetheart and Aline MacMahon has the jokes. But the shows they hustle into close before they open. As Rogers snarls, it’s “the depression, dearie”. But then Dick Powell changes their luck with catchy tunes and deep pockets. This is a bona fide pre-Code musical, so the talkie scenes burst with prohibition-busting backstage antics and a little Park Avenue farce, but the curtains open wide on four of the most outlandish numbers ever filmed, courtesy the kaleidoscopic visions of Busby Berkeley and what deadpan Ned Sparks calls: “The gay side, the hard-boiled side, the cynical and funny side of the Depression!” Vivacious economic optimism in We’re in the Money and heart
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Stephen Sondheim once said that
My Fair Lady was probably the greatest musical comedy ever fashioned in terms of sheer entertainment, and there are probably few who would argue with him. Lyrical and literate,
My Fair Lady was and is one of the apexes of the American musical theater. Its 1964 film version is a handsome, über-faithful transcription of the theater piece with two of its original cast members recreating their roles and a top-flight set of actors filling in the other legendary parts with ease. Directed with controlled finesse and command by veteran George Cukor, the movie was pretty much everything one who loved the stage version could have hoped for. There may be no surprises or unusual innovations in the movie, but the playâs dramatic, comedic, and musical merits have all been brought forward and play to perfection on the big screen. After receiving a masterful restoration and a subsequent Blu-ray release in 2015,
The Lavender Hill Mob are Stanley Holloway, Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, and Sidney James.
The British Film Institute launches BFI Player Classics on May 14. The new streaming outlet promises what it calls a “collection of classic British cinema specifically for the American market.” (I’m guessing that means no subtitles.) What follows is a trio of comedies guaranteed to delight. For more information on the subscription service, visit: https://www.bfi.org.uk/
The Lavender Hill Mob
(1951)
Virtuous to a fault and 100% lacking in initiative in the eyes of his superiors, bank clerk Holland (Alec Guinness, eyes gleaming, chin tucked in chest) is the perfect employee. But don’t let his “fusby” comportment fool you. It’s an act, one that Holland has spent 20 years on the job refining. He oversees a weekly delivery of gold bullion, and after all that time, our inconspicuous wage earner has at last hit upon a plan to stick it to the man. A neighboring souvenir salesman (Stanl
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