On the Town1949
On the Town (1949)
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Critic Consensus: Overflowing with infectious enthusiasm, On the Town is an exhilarating musical ride across the real streets of New York featuring another graceful performance from Gene Kelly.
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Cast
as Gabey
as Chip
as Claire Huddesen
as Ivy Smith
as Brunhilde Esterhazy
as Ozzie
as Dilyovska
as Lucy Shmeeler
as Professor
as Worker
as Subway Passenger
as Working Girl
as Sign Poster
as Photo Layout Man
as Spud
as Officer
as Off. Tracy
as Sailor's Date
as Cab Company Owner
as Francois
as Redhead
as Sailor Simpkins
as Sailor
as Cop
as Dancer in Green
as Waiter
Critic Reviews for On the Town
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A bright Christmas confection.
It's hard to make a good musical with mediocre songs... One exception... the sweetness and gracefulness [of Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen] in "Main Street."
Delightful, athletic stuff with some unusual -- but wonderful -- location shooting. New York never looked better.
A fine, freewheeling musical.
The pep, enthusiasm and apparent fun the makers of On the Town had in putting it together comes through to the audience and gives the picture its best asset.
On the Town is exhilarating, brash spectacle, all rip-snorting, wisecracking attack, and maybe just a teensy bit unlikeable.
Audience Reviews for On the Town
Exuberant, nonstop dashing about the streets of New York City while on shore leave, three sailors chase down love in one of the first musicals to use actual location shooting. The three sailors, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin, each have their own idiosyncratic charms, but it's their gal friends who keep the movie from getting stale. Especially Betty Garrett (who'd later go on to play neighbor to both Archie Bunker and Laverne and Shirley), whose super-sexed taxi driver character chases down a poor, bewildered Frank Sinatra (and he just wants to see the sights of the city, not get all involved with some wacky dame). There is one particularly memorable song ("New York, New York, it's a wonderful town!"), and some less memorable ones, but they are all pretty entertaining. And that's probably the best way to describe On The Town, not very memorable, but entertaining.
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This one and Anchors Aweigh act as perfect companion pieces! But this is definitely more rowdy, more sexually charged, and I must say I do prefer it, if not just for Ann Miller's awesome museum tap dancing.
Super Reviewer
I have to confess a secrt love for Gene Kelly, the man is a fascinating dancer with a style of his own. This fun 40's musical is typically corny, extremely predictable and the songs (bar one or two) are easily forgettable and yet there is something here that catches this era of musicals in a fun, easy watching way, that brings the stage to the screen.
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