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The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon

1953 112 min ★ 7.2 Music, Comedy, Romance

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

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Cast

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

Tony Hunter

Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse

Gabrielle Gerard

Oscar Levant

Oscar Levant

Lester Marton

Nanette Fabray

Nanette Fabray

Lily Marton

Jack Buchanan

Jack Buchanan

Jeffrey Cordova

James Mitchell

James Mitchell

Paul Byrd

Robert Gist

Robert Gist

Hal

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner (uncredited)

Don Beddoe

Don Beddoe

Producer (uncredited)

Henry Corden

Henry Corden

Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

Details

Director

Vincente Minnelli

Screenplay

Betty Comden

Tagline

"Get Aboard!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$2,900,000

Revenue

$3,500,000

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

July 16, 2024

★ 7/10

Now I do watch quite a lot of horrors films, but it's been a while since I've seen something quite so un-nerving as Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse and Oscar Levant all dressed up as babies singing a song about having a gun! That rather sums up this entertainingly eclectic story that sees the theatrically flamboyant "Cordova" (Jack Buchanan) drafted in to try and inject some life into the lacklustre "T...

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