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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569677395
Format: NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 55308
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1933
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - fine early musical with lots of action and glitter
Footlight Parade is one of the best early musicals starring the great Jimmy Cagney, Ruby Keeler, and Joan Blondell. Dick Powell also turns in a great performance and his singing is superb. The song and dance numbers by Busby Berkeley are nothing short of incredible; and the plot moves along at a good pace.
The action begins when Chester Kent (Jimmy Cagney) is struggling to put on prologues, small shows as opening numbers on a stage just before a movie theater showed an early "talkie ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Musical
A wonderful musical. 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). While most musical movies happen in a neverland place, this at least try to put itself in its particular time and place (the Great Depression). There's a freshness in the movie that you don't see in flicks today, much ... Read More
Rating: - Top notch Berkeley
At the height of the Depression, Warner Brothers scored a hat trick with 3 memorable films in a year - "42nd Street", "Golddiggers of 1933" and "Footlight Parade". Each was unique: the sombre coarseness and desperation of the first, the Depression theme and comedy of the second and the optimism of the third with reference to Roosevelt's New Deal. "Footlight Parade" in particular had a sting in its tail which could be summed up in two words - James Cagney. Cagney has quickly established his reputation ... Read More
Rating: - It's Not Astaire and Rogers
Not so much a musical as a mating call set to music. But then what else could be expected from three back-to-back production numbers from that carnally-obsessed choreographer Busby Berkeley. "Beside the Waterfall" alone has enough `flowering o's', half-dressed chorines, and suggestive camera angles to make Hugh Hefner blush and send Dr. Freud into terminal overload. Then too, who else but the mad Mr. Berkeley could convert the complicated matter of sex into a mere conjugation of overhead geometry. There's ... Read More
Rating: - All About the Music
Silent films are out and talking pictures are in, which means big musicals shows are going from stage to screen. A group of musical exhibitors are out of a job when one of them, Kent (James Cagney), gets a bright idea. Why not do musical previews like a chain store would to save money? They're in business and soon business is booming with beautiful girls, crazy ideas, and a great cast (Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee).
The best part of this movie is the music done in Busby ... Read More
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