Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade (1933)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 85% of users liked it
    (1,005 ratings)

The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight Parade stars James Cagney as a Broadway musical comedy producer. Cagney is unceremoniously put out of business when talking pictures arrive. To keep his head above water,… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 44 min.
Directed By
Lloyd Bacon, Llyod Bacon
Written By
Manuel Seff, James Seymour
Genres
Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 30, 1933 Wide
On DVD
Mar 21, 2006

Critic Reviews

  • Chris Cabin, Filmcritic.com

    generates laughs at a criminal rate

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Not the best of the Berkeley Warner musicals, but close.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    fun and funny musical with cagney and dick powell. mindblowing busby berkeley numbers in the second half. the last one includes an opium den. also i think joan blondell called claire dodd a bitch :O

  • jay n


    Everybody is full of boundless energy and the musical numbers are truly awesome.

  • Jennifer X


    Out of Busby Berkeley's early trifecta this is easily his weakest of his plots, but the most imaginative of the musical numbers. But give me the gritty, earthy tap dancing to ridiculous water-sprite synchronized swimming anyway. Doesn't James Cagney remind you of Orson… More

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