Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6046 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-05-16
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 108 minutes

Synopsis
A washed-up movie star tries his luck on a faltering Broadway show and manages to turn it into a smash hit. Features a score of Schwartz-Dietz songs like 'Dancing In The Dark', 'Louisianna Hayride' and 'That's Entertainment'. Music by Adolph Deutsch. Songs by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz.

Customer Reviews

The very best of Fred Astaire
Hey, you're 54 and you have to dance round the screen! WOW Could this guy dance or not? Astaire was the very best exponent of screen dancing (sorry Kelly fans) and this is his best film by a long chalk. Cyd Charisse is, well, fantastic. Beautiful, elegant, and a great partner. Different, very different, from Ginger but then the dancing is different proving that Fred did move with the times. There isnt a bad song in the show nor a bad dance. It is quite simply, along with Silk Stockings, the best of Astaire.
If you like good music, good dancing, a happy ending, and a 'put on a show' story, then this will do.
Buy it, buy it now and enjoy!!

Enjoy the ride!
The Band Wagon is an old-fashioned Hollywood musical. Sadly, they don't make them like this any more. It's worth the money just for Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan's duet "I guess I'll have to change my plan". It's all great fun.

Total escapism
For some reason I never saw this film until an advanced age, though I was familiar with all the b/w Astaire films of the 30s, and other musicals of the 50s (Singin' in the...well you get the picture). For some reason I thought this one might be a bit limp and hammy, but it's absolutely terrific. Astaire dances as well as ever, all the numbers are great and surely Cyd C. is one of the most desirable women ever invented. And a special word for Jack Buchanan, whom I had never seen properly in action. My Mother always said how great he was, and here he is in action, a consummate if rather camp actor giving a great performance. And the design! America (well, Hollywood anyway) in the 50's in all its opulent glory. I loved it.