Fred Astaire Triple Feature: Second Chorus/Royal Wedding/The Over The Hill Gang Rides Again

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Great to have Astaire on DVD, but the print quality is low.......2003-01-24

Here are three Fred Astaire movies: Second Chorus, Royal Wedding, and The Over the Hill Gang Rides Again. The first movie, Second Chorus is a light, frivolous movie, with less of Astaire's dancing than is typical in his outings with Ginger Rogers. It's fun to see, but the print is fairly muddy, and sometimes it's hard to see detail. Royal Wedding is cute, and features some of Astaire's classic dance scenes--the hatrack dance and the dance on the ceiling number. The Over the Hill Gang Rides Again is a made-for-television movie featuring a number of familiar old faces from Westerns. It's an ok movie, and it's fun to see Astaire in the "fish out of water" kind of a movie. It's Fred Astaire's only Western, and although he plays a Texas Ranger, he's the most dandified Texas Ranger you'll ever see. Overall, the DVD compilation is fun, and the price is certainly low enough to overcome the print quality objection.

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Beware this "bootleg" DVD
VERY POOR QUALITY

Royal Wedding/Second Chorus
Starring: Fred Astaire , Jane Powell , Peter Lawford , Sarah Churchill , and Keenan Wynn
Director: Stanley Donen , and H.C. Potter
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ASIN: B0000C0FLP
Release Date: 2003-10-28

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Royal Wedding
Follows the hi-jinks of a brother (Astaire) and sister (Jane Powell) dance act as they search for love on a transatlantic journey. This movie showcases some of Astaire's most memorable dance scenes in film history and has delighted audiences since the movie's release in 1951.

SECOND CHORUS
Friendly rivals Danny (Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith), are trumpet players in a college swing band when they meet Ellen (Paulette Goddard), the band s new manager. So begins the on going wooing and courtship of Ellen, while trying to out do one another and maliciously destroy their friendship.
Features the Oscar nominated song "LOVE OF MY LIFE"

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Running Time: 177 Min.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Royal Wedding
Fred Astaire dances on the ceiling in this 1951 Alan Jay Lerner musical for MGM, directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The appealing story finds Astaire as part of a brother-and-sister act (along with Jane Powell) that travels to London at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's wedding. Astaire and Powell each find romances that threaten to break up the act, but that's mostly fun window dressing in a movie better known for some truly creative sequences made vivid by Donen, including Astaire's famous dance with a hat rack and his duet with Powell, "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You (When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life)?" --Tom Keogh

Second Chorus
Second Chorus has one little gem of a moment that has found its way into many Fred Astaire highlight reels. Astaire sings and taps "I Ain't Hep to That Step but I'll Dig It" then tries to coax Paulette Goddard onto the floor. She declines twice, then joins him in a joyous dance. The rest of the movie is not as enticing. Astaire and Burgess Meredith portray trumpet players vying for a spot in Artie Shaw's orchestra and for the affections of Goddard. The interplay among the three stars has its charms, and there's plenty of toe-tapping big-band music from Shaw, who plays himself in a substantial part and wrote the Oscar-nominated "Would You Like to Be the Love of My Life" with Johnny Mercer. Filmed in 1940, Second Chorus pales in comparison to the nine-film Astaire-Ginger Rogers partnership that had just ended. Astaire doesn't dance enough, and a tedious subplot involving Charles Butterworth stretches the movie about 15 minutes too long. No great surprise that like Royal Wedding, Second Chorus has slipped into the public domain and is generally available in poor-quality prints. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews:

Beware this "bootleg" DVD.......2004-10-18

ROYAL WEDDING isn't on DVD yet. That's because the OWNER of the film, Warner Bros. hasn't released it yet.

But several other companies have, under the "guise" of public domain. The original copyright on the film was not renewed properly with the Library of Congress, so the film is perceived to be public domain, although the music is very much copyrighted and every distributor of this movie is participating in copyright infringement by selling these "bootlegs".

The companies make the money, because they're selling OTHER people's property.

The people who ultimately suffer are YOU, THE CONSUMER, unknowingly buying products of inferior (worse than professional VHS) quality, thinking you're getting the real thing, because it's a DVD.

Save your money. Wait until Warner Bros. gives us the real thing
thing...

And by the way, the movie gets 4 stars, it's the cheapo bootleg DVD that gets 1 star!

VERY POOR QUALITY.......2003-11-20

Unfortunately the release of this DVD with such poor visual and sound quality is appalling. One expects sharpness, one gets a version worse than one sees on television. Don't bother buying this version!!

Fred Astaire - Double Feature - Royal Wedding & Second Chorus

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Second Chorus

Fred Astaire - Double Feature - Royal Wedding & Second Chorus

Manufacturer: Family Value Collection
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Two Classic Fred Astaire Films in one DVD. Royal Wedding with the famous coat rack dance and the just as famous costar and Second Chorus a hard to find gem with the music of Artie Shaw thrown in.

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Second Chorus.......2006-02-23

This was not the type of Fred Astaire musical I'm used to. It was very disappointing and of poor quality. Royal Wedding was a great movie. I would give it a five.

*10 Movie Set* Three Broadway Girls (1932), Doll Face (1946), Moonlight Sonata (1937), Second Chorus (1940), Mr. Imperium (1951), Manhattan Merry Go Round (1937), Royal Wedding (1951), Happy Go Lovely (1951), Glorifying the American Girl (1930), the Stork Club (1945)

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*10 Movie Set* Three Broadway Girls (1932), Doll Face (1946), Moonlight Sonata (1937), Second Chorus (1940), Mr. Imperium (1951), Manhattan Merry Go Round (1937), Royal Wedding (1951), Happy Go Lovely (1951), Glorifying the American Girl (1930), the Stork Club (1945)

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Digitally Remastered For Superior Picture Quality
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ASIN: B000H78XC8

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Royal Wedding/Second Chorus

Manufacturer: CATCOM Home Video
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Royal Wedding - Fred Astaire & Jane Powell play a brother & sister dance team tap dancing their way through the British aristocracy and the royal marriage of Princess Elizabeth. Royal Wedding is a well-known music & dance-filled extravaganza. Second Chorus - Trumpet player & tap dancer extraodinaire Danny Neil wants to star in big band leaders Artie Shaw's newest show. The only thing getting in his way is his buddy who also wants the job! This hilarious and jumpin' jive film stars Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard and Artie Shaw himself. Marvelous dancing and plenty of hot big band music make Second Chorus an evening's worth of wonderful entertainment.

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Royal Wedding/Second Chorus
Starring: Royal Wedding , and Second Chorus
Manufacturer: Krb Music
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ASIN: B0002Z41FS
Release Date: 2006-04-04

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Fred Astaire: 2 on 1
Starring: Royal Wedding , and Second Chorus
Manufacturer: Unicorn
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ASIN: B0007VY5B2
Release Date: 2005-05-31

Double Feature "Royal Wedding" & Second Chorus"

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Double Feature "Royal Wedding" & Second Chorus"

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Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island / Captain Scarlett & Royal Wedding/Second Chorus

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Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island / Captain Scarlett & Royal Wedding/Second Chorus

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Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island/Captain Scarlett & Royal Wedding/Second Chorus - 4 movies on 2 DVDs
Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island/Captain Scarlett - 2 Action & Adventures On 1 DVD
Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Burrell, Richard Greene, Manolo Fabregas, Leonora Amar, Eduardo Norriega
Royal Wedding/Second Chorus - 2 Musicals On 1 DVD
Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford,Albert Sharpe, Keenan Wynn, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Charles Butterworth

ASIN: B000UWDLVI

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Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island/Captain Scarlett & Royal Wedding/Second Chorus Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island:Silver (Robert Newton) rescues a governor's daughter, & lines his own pockets in the process. Next, Long John quells a mutiny & prevents his young friend Jim Hawkins (Kit Taylor) from having to walk the plank. Finally, Long John & Jim arrive at Treasure Island, where they're forced to duke it out with the men of Silver's old enemy Mendoza (Lloyd Burrell). Connie Gilchrist costars as Purity, Long John's on-and-off pubkeeper sweetheart. Captain Scarlet: A French Robin Hood type: Captain Scarlet (Richard Greene), who seeks to reclaim his birthright from the usurping Duke of Corlaine (Manolo Fabregas). Captain Scarlet & his men rally the countryside to take up arms against the despotic duke & saves Princess Maria (Leonora Amar) from lecherous Count Villiers (Eduardo Norriega). Royal Wedding: Shipboard, Fred Astaire & Jane Powell head to England to perform at the palace. Powell breaks up the act when she falls in love with blueblooded Peter Lawford. Astaire himself finds romance in the form of Sarah Churchill , and the 4 happy lovers gleefully attend the Royal Wedding. Also stars: Albert Sharpe, & Keenan Wynn, hilarious as twin cousins. First-rate musical numbers. The Astaire/Powell duets are entertaining ; the real magic, in Astaire's two solos: the hat-rack duet & the now-legendary tap-dance on the ceiling! Second Chorus: Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith play Danny O'Neill & Hank Taylor, friendly-enemy musicians who after spending 7 years in a college band aspire to join the Artie Shaw Orchestra. Danny & Hank also spend a lot of time vying over their pretty manager Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard). Guess who wins her hand in this picture? Charles Butterworth steals the show as Mr. Chisholm, a music-loving eccentric who finances Shaw's "swing concerto" concert at Carnegie Hall. Great Fred Astaire dances, too!

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