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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569677418
Format: NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 70244
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1935
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Off and beyond the Gold Standard
Everything about this movie is 18 carat plus; and the Lullaby number is stupendous, stellar, astounding, astonishing, awesome, supersonic, ballistic, dazzling, stratospheric, surreal, stomping, incredible, dark, hypercaliginous, threatening, frightening, ominous. Beggars imagination. The rich are very rich, no-one else has anything much. A bed-sitter perhaps. World War Two was on its way, when everyone went crazy. You can still feel the buzz.
Rating:  - seductive & decadent & fascist & fun
the first busby berkeley movie that actually bore the imprimatur "directed by busby berkeley", the film is none too interesting save for the big production numbers. but what else do you judge a berkeley movie by? the bevy of pianos, all coming together as one as if a gigantic jigsaw puzzle is awesome, but of course its merely a warmup for the REAL reason to see this movie: the 15-minute-long mini-film "lullaby of broadway": a mix of the surreal and expressionism set against an art deco world culminating ... Read More
Rating: - Come on Along and Listen To...
Gold Diggers of 1935 does not live up to the sheer fun and brilliance of the 1933 title, but it is a good early musical to tap your feet to. The plot revolves around a wealthy but stingy woman who brings her son and daughter to a hotel to stay. The daughter (Gloria Stuart of Titanic fame) is engaged to a man obsessed with snuff ()but she really wants to experience a lavish life with plenty of freedom. In order to do so, she promises her mother she will marry the snuff king for a few days of freedom; she is ... Read More
Rating: - Surrender to it
You really need to warm up to GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935. It is essentially a B-movie comedy that was somehow blessed with the best production number of any Hollywood musical--but that's waaaay at the end. If you resist the temptation to fast-foward to the Busby Berekeley numbers, and surrender to the general nuttiness, you'll find the movie is actually pretty funny. Alice Brady, Adolphe Menjou and the fabulous Glenda Farrell are excellent, and even Dick Powell isn't so bad here. Gloria Stuart (of TITANIC fame) ... Read More
Rating: - Listen to the Lullaby of Old Broadway!
Okay, the story is a cliche from start to finish and the acting is "thirties" overkill. That's not what any movie buff is interested in. The only reason this film is remembered, and it's a doozy of a reason, is the 13-plus minutes of "Lullaby of Broadway". This "film-within-a-film", as it were, is a hypnotic, visually billiant, and shockingly original musical number like none that has ever appeared on the screen. Its story of the life and death of a New York goodtime gal is thrillingly, cleverly rendered ... Read More
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