Top Hat (1935)
Country: US
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick
Synopsis:
A star of musical comedy takes time out of his London run to pursue a model to Venice, after she has been mistakenly led to believe that he is the husband of her best friend rather than just the man she wants her to meet.
Review:
The flimsiest of plots supports the showiest of the RKO Astaire/Rogers vehicles, with more than one sequence indebted to Busby Berkeley. There is excellent comic support from the likes of Horton and Blore, and gags involving handsome cabs and gondolas for the exotic studio locations, neither of which looks anything like the real thing but who cares. We are here for the dancing and are not disappointed, from Astaire's opening stamp to the final shot as he whisks Rogers away for an off-camera clinch.
Country: US
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick
Synopsis:
A star of musical comedy takes time out of his London run to pursue a model to Venice, after she has been mistakenly led to believe that he is the husband of her best friend rather than just the man she wants her to meet.
Review:
The flimsiest of plots supports the showiest of the RKO Astaire/Rogers vehicles, with more than one sequence indebted to Busby Berkeley. There is excellent comic support from the likes of Horton and Blore, and gags involving handsome cabs and gondolas for the exotic studio locations, neither of which looks anything like the real thing but who cares. We are here for the dancing and are not disappointed, from Astaire's opening stamp to the final shot as he whisks Rogers away for an off-camera clinch.
Country: US
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick
Synopsis:
A star of musical comedy takes time out of his London run to pursue a model to Venice, after she has been mistakenly led to believe that he is the husband of her best friend rather than just the man she wants her to meet.
Review:
The flimsiest of plots supports the showiest of the RKO Astaire/Rogers vehicles, with more than one sequence indebted to Busby Berkeley. There is excellent comic support from the likes of Horton and Blore, and gags involving handsome cabs and gondolas for the exotic studio locations, neither of which looks anything like the real thing but who cares. We are here for the dancing and are not disappointed, from Astaire's opening stamp to the final shot as he whisks Rogers away for an off-camera clinch.