Hank and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Hank, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Hank recognizes that Eddie is in love with Quee... (Full plot summary below)
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Hank and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Hank, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Hank recognizes that Eddie is in love with Queenie.
Leave your thoughts about The Broadway Melody.
| Film ThreatBobby LePireThe film, directed by Harry Beaumont, is considered the first-ever musical, creating a template that is still followed nearly a century later. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThe staging is wooden, the story insipid, and the dialogue sequences mostly painful, but the film’s integration of song, dance, and story (“100% All Talking! 100% All Singing! 100% All Dancing!”) was a clear narrative advance over the music pictures being released by Warner Brothers and Fox, and the score is great. |
| Contactmusic.comChristopher NullMainly a curiosity for film buffs who want to see how musicals erupted in the early days of the talkie. |
| DVDJournal.comMark Bourne...cinematic evolution long ago froze The Broadway Melody in Precambrian amber. But while the movie is hopelessly dated now, it was the bee's knees in its day. |
| Three Movie BuffsScott NashWithout taking the historical context into account it would be impossible to imagine that it won the Best Picture award. It surely must be the most frivolous film to ever hold that honor. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt BaileyThe Broadway Melody won the Academy Award for the best picture of 1929, but I am at a total loss to explain how or why. |
| Matt's Movie ReviewsMatt EasterbrookIt's dated, sexist (get a load of the ending!!!), and technically quite inept. |
| New York Daily NewsIrene ThirerZowie! What a picture! Humor, drama, romance, action, thrill! And how! |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelAnyone approaching it today will find it horribly dated, badly produced, and filled with uninspired musical numbers and over-the-top performances. This is the kind of movie that turns off children of today's generation from titles made during the early talkie era. |
| eFilmCritic.comDavid CorneliusIts function as genre blueprint makes for quite the curiosity. More importantly, it also stands up quite well as a solid evening's entertainment. |
