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.

Retail / Rental (S12.99)

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