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The Band Wagon

1953

Vincente Minnelli

Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray ...

7.6

3,202

Musical Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner, not him. But his old friends Lily and Les Martin have an idea for a funny little Broadway show and he agrees to do it. But things begin to get out of hand, when bigshot "artistic" director/producer/star Jeffrey Cordova joins the production, proclaims it's a modernistic Faust ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Sorry, the beloved 'Singin' in the Rain' isn't the finest of the legendary MGM musicals"
		Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"The more you look at it, the more perfect it seems"
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A show that respectfully bids for recognition as one of the best musical films ever made"
		Austin Chronicle	"Minnelli's direction has seldom attained such a perfect fusion of form and content. The Band Wagon is quite simply a masterpiece"
		IndieWire	"Arthur Freed and Comden & Greene’s timeless classic is the musical for people who don’t like musicals"

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