42nd Street [videorecording] /
director, Lloyd Bacon
- [U.K.] : Warner Home Video, 2006.
- 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w.
Film originally released in 1933. Based on the novel 'Bradford ropes' by Rian James. Special features: 3 vintage documentary shorts: "Harry Warren: America's foremost composer", "Hollywood newsreel" and "A trip through a Hollywood studio".
Cast includes: Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers.
Backstage musical in which the leading lady sprains her ankle before the first night and is replaced by a chorus girl (Ruby Keeler). With dance sequences by Busby Berkeley. This film about a Broadway musical was the basis for an actual Broadway musical. In black and white, though a colourised version exists.
BBFC code: U.
DVD.
In English and Italian with subtitles in English and Italian for the hearing impaired and in English, Italian and Arabic.