"42nd Street" is clearly one of those very typical Broadway plots: a good Broadway director wants to make a final production, but his heroine gets injured on the eve of its premiere and is replaced by a new candidate , so the newcomer was a great success. This kind of plot seems to fall into the cliché, but this film makes this kind of old-fashioned plot gain by adding the love story of an old rich man, and the heroine did not cut off her love for her lover because of the temptation of money. many new ideas. The actor who plays the leading role in this film is indeed a well-known actor from Broadway, which adds a rare color to the visibility of this film in performance. The wonderful theatrical performance in the last twenty minutes of this film is so wonderful that the audience can hold their breath and bring an intoxicated smile on their faces, because the music and singing of this film have a power that penetrates the heart.
42nd Street evaluation action
2022-04-07 08:01
Extended Reading
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Enos 2022-04-09 09:01:09
Women in those days were so pretty. In the last part of the dance, the changing colors of the woman's thighs are amazing!
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Felipe 2022-04-07 08:01:02
Forty-second Street is the epitome of America in the 1930s, where there is murder, a life of hardship, and of course a dream of becoming a big star. The joyous and almost mindless plot undoubtedly implies that the United States has bid farewell to the Great Depression and welcomes the Here comes the singing and dancing of the new era. The brisk footage shows the story behind the theatrical performance. The scenes of the singing and dancing scenes are edited perfectly. The line dance performance and the song complement each other. It is truly a pioneering work of the times.
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Billy Lawler: [to Peggy Sawyer] Hey, I've been for you ever since you walked in on me in my BVD's.
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Peggy Sawyer: Why, Jim, they didn't tell me you were here.
Peggy Sawyer: It was GRAND of you to come!