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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TCFHE
EAN: 0024543536901
Feature: After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS Rating: NR Age: 024543536901 UPC: 024543536901 Manufacturer No: 2253690
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2253690
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1941

Features:
  • After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS Rating: NR Age: 024543536901 UPC: 024543536901 Manufacturer No: 2253690



 

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/07/2008 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Alice Faye is Beautiful
A very good movie withn lots of music and laughs Jack Oakie is a stand out



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Radio Voices Come to LIFE!!
With the other 2 books on the history of radio, my mom really appreciated this movie version of how America's most favorite radio dramas.........finally came to life on early TV and in screened movies.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - An energetic, rambunctious screwball comedy
"The Great American Broadcast" (20th Century Fox, 1941)
This frothy, energetic comedy is a loose-with-the-facts fictionalization of how radio became the great medium of the early 20th Century. Robust, good-natured John Payne (sort of the Brendan Fraser of his time) and comic sidekick Jack Oakie meet up around 1920 as two down-and-out World War One vets who share an interest in the then-new radio technology. Payne's character come up with the idea that maybe they could use this newfangled radio ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - First rate musical comedy
In 1941, Alice Faye was at the peak of her success. Her films were usually made to a very successful formula whereby she suffered at the hands of an insensitive leading man - singing through tears. This film adheres rigidly to the cliches, combining scenes from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "Tin Pan Alley", set to the advent of radio. The merits of the film are obvious:

- Alice herself, bright, amusing, energetic and very pretty
- A lively Jack Oakie on board for some hokey comedy ... Read More





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