| Product Summary | | Publisher: Warner | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00012569698420 | | Buy.com Sku: 40706079 | | Item#: V2275T | | Category Keywords: Dance Theatrical Release | | Rating: NR |
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Features: DVD, Special Edition, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
With Singin' In The Rain, writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green lampooned Hollywood. The following year, they wielded their comically poisoned pens for The Band Wagon and skewered the New York theater. Pardon, the Theatah! Film fans have clambered aboard the Wagon for decades. And for good reason. This Vincente Minnelli-directed backstager "improves with each viewing" (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide). Fred Astaire stars, as engagingly dapper as ever in numbers set in a train station ("By Myself"), a penny arcade ("Shine On Your Shoes"), a backlot Central Park ("Dancing In The Dark") and a scene-of-the-crime cafe (the "Girl Hunt") ballet, the latter two with incomparable Cyd Charisse. And when he, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan play infants who "hate each other very much!" in the inventive "Triplets" sequence, it's another reason to love this movie very, very much. As the hallmark song which originated here goes, That's Entertainment! Includes original theatrical trailer.
"Keeps getting better and better as great musical numbers keep piling up." Danny Peary, Guide For The Film Fanatic
"A fine score, sensational dance numbers and charming performances by all..." Find-A-Video
"Sophisticated..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter, down and out in Hollywood, decides to try his luck on the Broadway stage. Unfortunately, the simple hoofer discovers that a pretentious director has control of the project, and that instead of good humor, happy songs and a tapping chorus line, there'll be lengthy speeches, heavy drama and lots of deep soul-searching. Even worse, Tony's expected to dance with a classical ballerina! Thanks to the massive egos of everyone involved, the play, to no one's surprise, lays an egg. But now Tony takes charge, and he's out to prove the show must go on -- his way! Some of the dazzling Astaire dance numbers include "Triplets," "Girl Hunt," "Dancing in the Dark" and "That's Entertainment."
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; English, French Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 3/15/2005 |
| Running Time: 112 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1953 | | Catalog ID: 66984 | | UPC: 00012569698420 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.37:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1954) | | | Mary Ann Nyberg, Nominee, Best Costume Design, Color | | | Adolph Deutsch, Nominee, Best Music, Scoring Of A Musical Picture | | | Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Nominee, Best Writing, Story And Screenplay |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...Astaire called it his favorite film..." 10/19/1994 p.10DEntertainment Weekly
"...Hollywood's last great musical tribute to Broadway....Deliriously colorful..." -- Rating: A 05/12/1995 pp.68-70 Chicago Sun-Times
"THE BAND WAGON has a note of melancholy along with its smiles." 03/27/2005 p.3 Sight and Sound
"Fred Astaire is very amusing....Former stage designer Minnelli nails every theatreland joke..." 07/01/2005 p.82 Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 8 of 10
Sophisticated backstage musical improves with each viewing. Astaire plays a Òwashed-upÓ movie star w
Find-A-Video 8 of 10
One of Fred Astaire's most captivating musicals, this glorious comedic look at the making of a Broad
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