Dance; Fools; Dance
by Harry Beaumont
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Actor: Clark Gable, Cliff Edwards, Joan CrawfordDirector: Harry Beaumont
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Movie Reviews of Dance; Fools; Dance
Movie Review: Recommended for fans of Gable, Crawford, and the early talkies
Summary: 4 Stars
I am reviewing the product itself here, not the wisdom of paying this particular price for that product. This is a Warner Archive product. It is a DVD-R with no scene selections or chapter stops. You may only go forward or backwards in ten minute increments. Furthermore no special restoration has been done for this release.
This film is actually about 3.5/5. Not great, but good enough to keep your interest. It is historical for being the initial teaming of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, although Gable is sixth or seventh billed at this point. Don't expect Gable the gallant cad in this one - here he is pure cad.
The film is an unremarkable morality tale about the follies of the very wealthy spoiling their children even into adulthood to the point where they complain about having to "get up in the middle of the night (9 AM) to eat breakfast." When Wall Street crashes, dad dies from the shock and Bonnie Jordan (Joan Crawford) and her brother are left penniless. Bonnie chooses to break into newspaper reporting, but her brother chooses a less honest option which brings him into contact with Gable the gangster. After her close friend, reporter Bert Scranton (Cliff Edwards), is shot to death, Bonnie decides to go undercover as a dancer at Gable's nightclub to try to get to the bottom of the murder. She solves the crime, but at great personal cost.
The best parts of this film are watching Joan Crawford in a dance number and watching the great chemistry Crawford and Gable have together. You get bigger doses of Crawford and Gable together in "Possessed", which was made later this same year - 1931. I also recommend that film for hardcore fans of the precodes and of Crawford. As for Clark Gable, he has to wait until he manhandles Norma Shearer in "A Free Soul" before he catapults to true stardom.
As for audio and video quality, the audio quality is quite good while the video quality is a bit soft looking, although overall clarity and contrast is pretty good. It pretty much looks like a direct copy of my old VHS tape of this movie that was released in the late 1990's. Overall I'm quite satisfied with this particular Warner Archive entry.
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