Rating: G
Genre:
Musical
Release Date: 09/24/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of
Don Lockwood (
Gene Kelly) and
Lina Lamont (
Jean Hagen) is the toast of Tinseltown. While
Lockwood and
Lamont personify smoldering passions onscreen, in real life the down-to-earth
Lockwood can't stand the egotistical, brainless
Lina. He prefers the company of aspiring actress
Kathy Selden (
Debbie Reynolds), whom he met while escaping his screaming fans. Watching these intrigues from the sidelines is
Cosmo Brown (
Donald O'Connor),
Don's best pal and on-set pianist.
Cosmo is promoted to musical director of Monumental Pictures by studio head
R.F. Simpson (
Millard Mitchell) when the talking-picture revolution commences. That's all right for
Cosmo, but how will talkies affect the upcoming
Lockwood-
Lamont vehicle "The Dueling Cavalier"?
Don, an accomplished song-and-dance man, should have no trouble adapting to the microphone.
Lina, however, is another matter; put as charitably as possible, she has a voice that sounds like fingernails on a blackboard. The disastrous preview of the team's first talkie has the audience howling with derisive laughter. On the strength of the plot alone, concocted by the matchless writing team of
Betty Comden and
Adolph Green,
Singin' in the Rain is a delight. But with the addition of
MGM's catalog of
Arthur Freed-
Nacio Herb Brown songs --
"You Were Meant for Me," "You Are My Lucky Star," "The Broadway Melody," and of course the title song -- the film becomes one of the greatest Hollywood
musicals ever made.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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