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| | Angels With Dirty Faces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Film scholar commentary tracks are rarely satisfying because they usually point out the obvious and run out of interesting things to say rather quickly, so it is very exciting when a scholarly commentary track holds you in rapt attention from beginning to end. |
 | | On the one hand, in a film like this, you have an official message, which is, 'we have to be adults, we have to face morality, we have to lead lives of responsibility.' On the other hand, we want to regress to a kind of primal, infantile pleasure. |
 | | It begins as a studio tour, and so you get a colorful glimpse of sets and costumes from fl-and-white films such as "Angels With Dirty Faces." It moves on to a soundstage where there is an elaborate dance number where the dancers are gloriously flopping about as they tap in braless halter tops. |
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