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Information
- Year
- 1936
- Runtime
- 103 min.
- Director
- George Stevens
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Musical
- Rating *
- 7.7
- Votes *
- 8,524
- Checks
- 4,269
- Favs
- 332
- Dislikes
- 24
- Favs/checks
- 7.8% (1:13)
- Favs/dislikes
- 14:1
Top comments
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Duke of Omnium
Sure, the plot is silly, but you can say the same thing about most operas and a few Shakespeare plays. Astaire and Rogers have great chemistry onscreen, and this has just possibly the best dancing that Hollywood ever put on celluloid 8 years ago -
Alias
The best way movies have ever represented heaven is by the dancing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers. 12 years 8 months ago -
Siskoid
I'm going to go ahead and say the Astaire and Rogers classic, Swing Time, is overrated. Really, it's only real showstopper is the technically-difficult shadow dance in the Mr. Bojangles, but that's been severely compromised by being an extended blackface sequence that leads into the emotional turning point of the film where you're consistently distracted by thoughts of "when is he gonna wipe it OFF?!". Generally, the songs are better than the dancing in this one. "The Way You Look Tonight" has rightfully become a standard, and there's a lot of fun to be had with "A Fine Romance" and "Never Gonna Dance". However, after a perfectly amusing dance school number with the always well-matched Astaire and Rogers, the movie builds up tension as to whether they can dance in public (because of a jealous boyfriend as band leader) and then gives us... just about the same thing we just saw. As for a romcom plot, the (rom) characters are more fickle than usual, and a little of the (com) character played by Victor Moore goes a long way, but it's fine. I just can't get more exciting than that. 4 years 2 months ago
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This movie ranks #27 in Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century
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This movie ranks #38 in Roger Ebert's Great Movies
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This movie ranks #49 in iCheckMovies's 1930s Top 100
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This movie ranks #90 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies
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This movie ranks #90 in BFI's 100 Film Musicals
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This movie ranks #115 in BFI's 360 Classic Feature Films Project
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This movie ranks #180 in David Thomson's Have You Seen?
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This movie ranks #403 in Library of Congress's National Film Registry
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This movie ranks #723 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2000
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This movie ranks #854 in The New York Times's Book of Movies
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This movie ranks #1191 in The Criterion Collection
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