Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaHarry and Inez are dance partners at Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he's in love with Liane, a wealthy businessman's wife.Harry and Inez are dance partners at Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he's in love with Liane, a wealthy businessman's wife.Harry and Inez are dance partners at Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he's in love with Liane, a wealthy businessman's wife.
- Premi
- 1 vittoria e 1 candidatura
Dolores Del Río
- Inez
- (as Dolores Del Rio)
Grace Hayle
- Fat Dowager
- (scene tagliate)
Avis Adair
- Chorus Girl
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Trama
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- QuizAl Jolson insisted on singing the opening number Vive la France live on set, as he claimed it would be impossible to do the song justice if was filmed miming to playback, in order to deliver it with the excitement and verve that only he could bring to it. Even though this presented considerable technical problems, Warner Brothers agreed (that's the real studio orchestra actually on set playing the house band of the Wonder Bar) and this is one of the very last musical numbers to be performed live on camera.
- Curiosità sui creditiThe opening credits appear as the respective actors enter the nightclub through a revolving door.
- ConnessioniEdited into Clean Pastures (1937)
- Colonne sonoreAll Washed Up
(1934) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Instrumental dance number (after Jolson sings "Vive La France")
Recensione in evidenza
...and a great film come-back vehicle for Al Jolson. This film was released on March 31, 1934, just three months before the production code began to be enforced. As such, it is a buffet of items one would never see on film again in the U.S. until the 1960's - adultery as comedy, gigolos, a pair of men dancing with Jolson making the remark "Boys will be Boys", a dancing act involving a woman being whipped, what amounts to house-sponsored prostitution to keep the Wonder Bar's male patrons amused, a suicide that everyone knows about in advance and nobody bothers to stop, and a murder that goes unpunished and even undetected for that matter. However, this film is much more than just a last hurrah for the pre-code years, and I found it quite enjoyable. It is an intersection of Grand Hotel, the world's greatest entertainer, Al Jolson, and that genius of choreography, Busby Berkeley, with plenty of action and snappy dialogue to keep things going.
Of course, it is very ironic that the one part of the film that leaves everyone shocked today is probably one of the few things that the Hays Office had no problem with - that well-known musical number "Going to Heaven on a Mule". It is exactly what you would expect when the over-the-top style of Busby Berkeley's choreography meets the minstrel tradition of Al Jolson's musical style. Every racial stereotype in the book is in this musical number, and it was omitted on the VHS release of this film but was kept in the laser disc Jolson set. That's probably because laser disc was seen as specialty product whereas the VHS release was seen as something for consumption by the masses. The Warner Archives is also seen as a niche market, so the number is included in that DVD-R release. I am glad of that, because the present will never be made better by trying to erase or adjust the past, no matter how uncomfortable it may make people feel.
Highly recommended as great classic movie fun, if you can just remember that this film was made in 1934, not last week.
Of course, it is very ironic that the one part of the film that leaves everyone shocked today is probably one of the few things that the Hays Office had no problem with - that well-known musical number "Going to Heaven on a Mule". It is exactly what you would expect when the over-the-top style of Busby Berkeley's choreography meets the minstrel tradition of Al Jolson's musical style. Every racial stereotype in the book is in this musical number, and it was omitted on the VHS release of this film but was kept in the laser disc Jolson set. That's probably because laser disc was seen as specialty product whereas the VHS release was seen as something for consumption by the masses. The Warner Archives is also seen as a niche market, so the number is included in that DVD-R release. I am glad of that, because the present will never be made better by trying to erase or adjust the past, no matter how uncomfortable it may make people feel.
Highly recommended as great classic movie fun, if you can just remember that this film was made in 1934, not last week.
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- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingue
- Celebre anche come
- Čaroban bar
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Azienda produttrice
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- Budget
- 675.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 24 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1
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