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22 May 1942 (USA)
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Presenting THE ALL-AMERICAN DANCE BAND...Selected from among Readers in the SATURDAY EVENING POST POLL (original poster)
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Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition...
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A delightful spectacle of various jazz's classic gems
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Adolphe Menjou | ... | George Latimer |
 | Jackie Cooper | ... | Johnny Schumacher |
| Bonita Granville | ... | Kit Latimer |
| George Bancroft | ... | Steve Porter |
| Robert Benchley | ... | Doakes (scenes deleted) |
| Walter Catlett | ... | Spelvin (scenes deleted) |
| Ted North | ... | Paul Porter |
| Todd Duncan | ... | Rex Tearbone |
| Connee Boswell | ... | Herself, Connee Boswell |
| Frank Jenks | ... | Smiley Jackson |
| Jessica Grayson | ... | Ella Tearbone (as Jessie Grayson) |
| Mona Barrie | ... | Lillian |
| Lindy Wade | ... | Paul Porter - as a Child |
| Peggy McIntyre | ... | Kit Latimer - as a Child |
| Charlie Barnet | ... | Himself, Charlie Barnet |
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USA:88 min | USA:76 min (re-release)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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American Rhapsodie
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The merits of this pictures lay rather in the execution of the great jazz scores than the plot itself - lacking and predictable, in a latest account. Starting by a little chronicle about the jazz development, from its African origins up 'till its further evolving into the New Orleans and Chicago style, the story approaches the career's flourish of a young trumpeter Cooper, who falls for a "stride" piano player during the Great War - portraying also the noble stratum's refractory and prejudicial attitudes against jazz valued as a 'vulgar' genre. A movie that certainly will apply the classic jazz lovers, with locations in Basin street and, at the end, a very special featuring of the most hot jazz players of the early 40's as Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Gene Krupa, Harry James, Jack Jenny, Joe Venuti, and Alvino Rey, not forgetting the special appearance of Connie Boswell singing "under a falling star". As against another movies as "Alfie", "anatomy of murder" or "Ball of fire" which conciliate good scripts with good music (Sonnie Rollins, Duke Ellington and Roy Eldridge respectively), Syncopation, even unprovided of a consistent story, still is a delicious option in order to evoke one of the most fruitful music period in this century.