This movie contains the very best of Fred and Ginger as a dance team, and what more could you ask of a movie. The plot is nothing more than a device to get them from one dance to another -- and what dancing! If you've read the details of how the numbers were done you'll know that the final number was done as a continuous shot -- on something like take # 40. Astaire evidently insisted that all his dance numbers not only be done that way, but that the shots all included the full figures of both dancers -- the better to appreciate the sheer grace of the two. I'm nearing 70, but hadn't seen this movie -- shot less than a year after I was born -- until August of 2005. Boy what I'd been missing! To say that those two can dance is as much of an understatement as to say that Sinatra could sing. You'll forget all about the ridiculous plot and Fred's goofy looks once the dancing starts. This is a not to be missed movie!!!
Review of Swing Time
Swing Time
(1936)
The plot is . . . plot? The plot is unimportant. The dancing is marvelous!!!
16 August 2005