The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.
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02/09/06
Top Hat (1935)
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Reviews Counted: 34 Fresh: 34 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Synopsis: A musical comedy full of high style, romance, mistaken identity... and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing and singing 11 of Irving Berlin's best songs. When Jerry Travers meets lovely Dale Tremont, it's love at first sight for him. Unfortunately, Dale's affections chill when she... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Director: Mark Sandrich
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Screenwriter: Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott
Composer: Max Steiner
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Screenwriter: Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott
Composer: Max Steiner
Reviews
Top Critic
The fourth pairing of Astaire-Rogers is one of their best and RKO top grosser of the year.
03/21/08
This one can't miss and the reasons are three -- Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin's 11 songs and sufficient comedy between numbers to hold the film together.
01/11/08
Top Critic
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.
01/11/08
Top Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it.
06/24/06
Because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.
01/20/06
Top Critic
The plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.
09/07/05
Top Critic
...even after seventy years, the same elements delight us all over again. Good songs, good dancing, and good stars never go out of style.
08/03/05
Every musical number works, and the mistaken identity plot is pleasant enough, even if there's too much emphatic dithering from the supporting players towards the end.
08/01/05
The quintessential Fred-and-Ginger vehicle… typically escapist Depression-era fare… [but] whenever Fred and Ginger are in motion, the magic is timeless.
12/26/03
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