- Actors: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt, Leslie Brooks
- Directors: Victor Saville
- Producers: Victor Saville
- Format: PAL, Mono, Colour, Full Screen
- Language English
- Classification: U
- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Run Time: 88 minutes
- ASIN: B000KCNOKQ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,876 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Rita Hayworth's inimtable style of Hollywood glamour brings the story of London's Windmill Theatre during the Second World War to life.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A Forgotten Gem
19 Sep 2004
Rita Hayworth is radiant in this film--she just kept getting lovelier and lovelier. Her biographers note that she was pregnant with her first child, Rebecca Welles (Rita was married to Orson Welles at the time), during the making of this film, and maybe it's that maternal glow that makes her look even more beautiful than usual here.
Her dancing, as always, is a joy to watch, especially in the physically demanding number "You Excite Me." And her acting is terrific too. She had such a lovely soft way of speaking, very sensitive and natural, especially in the one-on-one moments with Lee Bowman (the romantic lead in the film). For a musical, it's interesting that it doesn't have the usual happy ending. The story line is more mature, more realistically reflecting the danger of London during World War II.
I highly recommend this film and sincerely hope that Columbia will bring it out on DVD very soon!
Her dancing, as always, is a joy to watch, especially in the physically demanding number "You Excite Me." And her acting is terrific too. She had such a lovely soft way of speaking, very sensitive and natural, especially in the one-on-one moments with Lee Bowman (the romantic lead in the film). For a musical, it's interesting that it doesn't have the usual happy ending. The story line is more mature, more realistically reflecting the danger of London during World War II.
I highly recommend this film and sincerely hope that Columbia will bring it out on DVD very soon!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I MUST HAVE THIS ON DVD!!!!
29 Dec 2005
I can't wait for Columbia/Sony Pictures to release this film on DVD.
Rita Hayworth was truly a stunner in every respect, and her studio did their upmost to showcase her beauty and talents as a dancer in film after film. Kudos to them!!! This one is a perfect example of such a Star vehicle. Luscious Technicolor, a number of EXTREME closeups of the creamy Love Goddess herself, a variety of musical numbers, including one sizzling samba with Rita in a white costume that shows a lot of flesh.
Watch Rita undulate (dictionary: to move in a smooth wavelike motion--amen!!) as sings "You Excite Me"!! In this number as well as others Rita shows off her great talent as a dancer, perhaps the best all-around female dancer in Hollywood. She has an unearthly grace that no other dancer has matched.
The story takes place in wartime england during the blitz, and ends sadly, which is not typical of a 1940's musical. Still, this is a very entertaining film. MGM may have made the best musicals, but Columbia's Hayworth musicals also have class and a niche of their own in Hollywood history.
Rita Hayworth was truly a stunner in every respect, and her studio did their upmost to showcase her beauty and talents as a dancer in film after film. Kudos to them!!! This one is a perfect example of such a Star vehicle. Luscious Technicolor, a number of EXTREME closeups of the creamy Love Goddess herself, a variety of musical numbers, including one sizzling samba with Rita in a white costume that shows a lot of flesh.
Watch Rita undulate (dictionary: to move in a smooth wavelike motion--amen!!) as sings "You Excite Me"!! In this number as well as others Rita shows off her great talent as a dancer, perhaps the best all-around female dancer in Hollywood. She has an unearthly grace that no other dancer has matched.
The story takes place in wartime england during the blitz, and ends sadly, which is not typical of a 1940's musical. Still, this is a very entertaining film. MGM may have made the best musicals, but Columbia's Hayworth musicals also have class and a niche of their own in Hollywood history.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
BEAUTIFUL WAR MUSICAL !
3 Jun 2004
How can someone write that this is a turkey ?
He must be blind, deaf and totaly lacking of romance...
This musical is a wonderful example of what the old Hollywood
was : Music, Glamour, Song and Dance and most of all the
beautiful Rita in gorgous Technicolor.
One of the best Hayworth - dance numbers ever on screen performed is "You excite me" : Rita doing Samba is something to watch...she tosses her red hair and one can imagine the GI's going crazy...
He must be blind, deaf and totaly lacking of romance...
This musical is a wonderful example of what the old Hollywood
was : Music, Glamour, Song and Dance and most of all the
beautiful Rita in gorgous Technicolor.
One of the best Hayworth - dance numbers ever on screen performed is "You excite me" : Rita doing Samba is something to watch...she tosses her red hair and one can imagine the GI's going crazy...
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