The Broadway Melody (1929)

The 2nd ever winner of the Best Picture Oscar, and credited as the 2nd musical film ever made. The movie poster even boasts that is has "talking"! I can't imagine being around in a time where mixing video and audio was so new and interesting, so finding this film good was very difficult.

I don't think the actors and actresses were good, actually I found them to be pretty awful. It sounded like there were reading lines, and I imagine that not only were they reading lines, but they were some of the first to do so. There was no acting school right? So maybe it isn't fair to judge here, but I didn't find the story all that good.

The song and dance routines were pretty fun, but I have to say... there seems to be a trend in musicals were most stage performers are very nasty people. Cutthroat, crude, and rude. I don't get it. Anyways, at least it was short.

Vote: 4/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019729/

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