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Top Hat

Hippodrome, Bristol
From: Wednesday, 21st March 2012
To: Saturday, 31 March 2012

Our Review: starstarstarstarstar

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Synopsis

The 1935 film centres on American dancer Jerry Travers (Astaire) who is working for bumbling producer Horace Hardwick in London. When Jerry practices his new dance routine late one night in Horace's hotel, it wakes the sleeping Dale Tremont (Rogers) below. When she goes upstairs to complain, the two are immediately attracted to each other, but complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace, who is married to her friend.

Our Review: starstarstarstarstar

Barbara Maxwell - 21 March 2012

Do you remember Sunday afternoons in front of the TV watching black and white movies – perhaps starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers? If you do you need to go and see Top Hat – if you don’t you still need to go and see Top Hat and see for yourself what your Mum and Dad / Gran and Grandad are always reminiscing about!

Top Hat takes the old Astaire/Rogers movie and brings it to life with a wow! It’s full of colour, music, charm and magic, and the dancing – well……….

The film was Radio-Keith-Orpheum’s (RKO) biggest smash of the thirties and earned the studio over $3 million. It is probably the most famous and well remembered of all the Astaire/Rogers films containing such Irving Berlin classics as “Puttin’ On The Ritz,” “Isn’t This a Lovely Day (to Be Caught In The Rain?).” “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails” and of course the unforgettable “Let’s Face the Music and Dance.”

The story is charming and sweet, unbelievable and - wel...

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