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READY, WILLING AND ABLE [USA/1937] 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ 🎵 💃 🕺 #CineMastodon #movies #Film #Cinema #OldHollywood #HollywoodMusicals

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42nd Street (1933), arguably the greatest musical of them all. Hardboiled, sexy, sassy, snappy plus those Busby Berkeley production numbers. It's like a delicious cocktail but with enough hard liquor in it to give it a real kick. Movie magic.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/04/42nd-street-1933.html

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Bright Lights (AKA Adventures in Africa) is a fascinating pre-code oddity, a backstage musical with romance and murder. Lightweight breezy fun, a fine showcase for star Dorothy Mackaill. The Cannibal Love musical number is a highlight.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/08/bright-lights-1930.html

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Dance, Dance, Dance 📽️ 🎞️🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿
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Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon (1953), with breathtaking dancing by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in glorious Technicolor.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-band-wagon-1953.html

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I'm a big fan of Cecil B. DeMille’s comedies. My favourite is his outrageous pre-code musical sex comedy Madam Satan (1930). Zeppelins, amazing costumes, lots of pre-code naughtiness. It all adds up to delirious crazy fun.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/madam-satan-1930.html

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Grease (1978) is a movie I'd never seen. Not at all what I expected. It's kind of crazy, in an interesting way. The 50s and the 70s all mixed up together plus some extra weirdness. Seeing it now it has a bit of a psychotronic vibe. I liked it.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/grease-1978.html

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I guess I'll have to do the comfort movies thing. Here are mine:

Swing Time (1936). Fred and Ginger.
Danger! Diabolik! (1968). The best comic-book movie ever made.
Big Trouble in Little China (1986). John Carpenter's masterpiece.
The Silencers (1966). Dean Martin as Matt Helm. What more could you want?

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