Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
Country: US
Technical: col 113m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Tom Drake, Mary Astor
Synopsis:
A year in the life of a largish, well-to-do St Louis family, culminating in the opening of the World's Fair in 1904.
Review:
A piece of Americana with a dear place in many people's affections, for its songs, for Judy Garland, for its downright unfaultability as family entertainment with a moral purpose. Here the climactic decision to 'stay put' is framed almost as a 'cri de guerre' for enduring family values, a pioneer's last stand against the winds of change, barring those that put him there in the first place, that is. The fact that it bore practically no resemblance to reality other than that seen in Hollywood movies, or that it was dramatically thin to say the least (the youngest child's trashing of the snow people being the exception) hardly seemed to matter and if anything throws into relief its subtext. Patience may wear thinner now, depending on one's mood, but one can still enjoy the costumes and production design.
Country: US
Technical: col 113m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Tom Drake, Mary Astor
Synopsis:
A year in the life of a largish, well-to-do St Louis family, culminating in the opening of the World's Fair in 1904.
Review:
A piece of Americana with a dear place in many people's affections, for its songs, for Judy Garland, for its downright unfaultability as family entertainment with a moral purpose. Here the climactic decision to 'stay put' is framed almost as a 'cri de guerre' for enduring family values, a pioneer's last stand against the winds of change, barring those that put him there in the first place, that is. The fact that it bore practically no resemblance to reality other than that seen in Hollywood movies, or that it was dramatically thin to say the least (the youngest child's trashing of the snow people being the exception) hardly seemed to matter and if anything throws into relief its subtext. Patience may wear thinner now, depending on one's mood, but one can still enjoy the costumes and production design.
Country: US
Technical: col 113m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Tom Drake, Mary Astor
Synopsis:
A year in the life of a largish, well-to-do St Louis family, culminating in the opening of the World's Fair in 1904.
Review:
A piece of Americana with a dear place in many people's affections, for its songs, for Judy Garland, for its downright unfaultability as family entertainment with a moral purpose. Here the climactic decision to 'stay put' is framed almost as a 'cri de guerre' for enduring family values, a pioneer's last stand against the winds of change, barring those that put him there in the first place, that is. The fact that it bore practically no resemblance to reality other than that seen in Hollywood movies, or that it was dramatically thin to say the least (the youngest child's trashing of the snow people being the exception) hardly seemed to matter and if anything throws into relief its subtext. Patience may wear thinner now, depending on one's mood, but one can still enjoy the costumes and production design.