the gangs' all here

the opening titles from the 1943 'war bonds' propaganda 20th century fox movie musical classic, The Gangs' All Here. American propoganda at its finest. you have to admire them for the sheer scale of these movies. The sets were enormous, it was very early technology.
Consider the neon lighting in the finale/end title. On the dvd you can see all the wiring attatched to the dancers. You can see the wires dropping in the neon circles.
The soundstages were huge to accomodate such sets.
That gets my huge respect, and it was always a happy ending!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• alice
• faye
• busby
• berkley
• war
• bonds
• propganda
• 1943
• 20thcentury
• fox
• usa
• cheesey
• camp

[afuzzyduck]

intro reminding anyone else of the water levels off Mario?

[RobertBensonPianist]

This is certainly one of the great American movie musicals - and it was made by patriots. It is American through and through. Back then, only the enclaves of east coast communists hated the country - now, sadly, many Americans hate their own country enough to refer to this film as "propaganda".

[acfinney1]

You were supposed to see the wiring. Why do you refer to this as propoganda? We were fighting a war that in 1943, was still a toss up. What you call propoganda, I call patriotism at it's best. You must be too young to remember the feeling of being proud of your country.

[nancyfloressantos]

A classic movie

[nicksacop]

These movies were made during WWII and were basically distractions for the American public. The technicolor pratically jumped off the scrreen at you.

[bchfront]

You're quite right about the irrelevance, but "Citizen Kane",the original choice had already been taken by the time they were ready to release this,so they had to take next-best, I guess. Having been raised in a "show" family, I was conditioned from an early-age to read credits. This made for some nice-reading. Leo Robin, the lyricst, lived just below my grandfather in the same condo. We were great friends and he was such a great-guy. Natalie Kalmus lived next-door to us in Benedict Canyon. RJ

[hebneh]

The title of this film is completely irrelevant to the story, so much so that I wonder why anyone chose it in the first place.