Watch: Footlight Parade 1933 123movies, Full Movie Online – Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies era he changes to producing short musical prologues for movies. This is stressful to him, because he always needs new units and his rival is stealing his ideas. He can get an contract with a producer if he is able to stage in three days three new prologues. In spite of great problems, he does it..
Plot: A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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They don’t make them like this anymore!
Clever, gritty, witty, fast-paced, sexy, extravagant, sleazy, erotic, heartfelt and corny, Footlight Parade is a first-class entertainment, what the movies are all about.The realistic, satirical treatment gives a fresh edge to the material and its pace and line delivery are breathtaking. To think that they only started making feature talking pictures 7 years before this! The brilliance of the dialogue cannot be matched anywhere today, especially considering that “realism” has taken over and engulfed contemporary cinema.
This film was made at a time when the Hayes code restricting content was being ignored and the result is a fresh, self-referential, critical and living cinema that spoke directly to contemporary audiences suffering through the depression and the general angst of the age. I’d recommend watching any film from this period, that is 1930-1935, for a vision of what popular cinema can potentially be.
Wonderful musical – one of the best ever
A wonder. One of the best musicals ever. The three Busby Berkely numbers that end the movie are spectacular, but what makes this film so wonderful is the incredible non-stop patter and the natural acting of Cagney and Blondell. (Keeler is also lovely, even though she may not have been a great actress). There’s a freshness in the movie that you don’t see in flicks today, much less in the usually stilted 30s films, even though the plot, involving the setting up of movies prologues, is quite dated.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 703000
Revenue 2416000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director Lloyd Bacon
Writer Manuel Seff, James Seymour, Robert Lord
Actors James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Vitaphone), Mono (Digital)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm