Fresh
Zowie! What a picture! Humor, drama, romance, action, thrill! And how!
Irene Thirer, New York Daily News
The Broadway Melody
All talking. All singing. All dancing.
1929 · 1h 40m · PASSED
Drama, Music, Romance
Directed by
Harry Beaumont
Overview
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Although the audible devices worked exceedingly well in most instances, it is questionable whether it would not have been wiser to leave some of the voices to the imagination.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Fresh
Excellent bits of sound workmanship are that of camera and mike following Page and the heavy along the dance floor to pick up their conversation as they glide.
Sid Silverman, Variety
Fresh
The staging is wooden, the story insipid, and the dialogue sequences mostly painful, but the film's integration of song, dance, and story was a clear narrative advance over the music pictures being released by Warner Brothers and Fox.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The Broadway Melody has not stood the test of time in ways that many of its more artistic contemporaries have.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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