Footlight Parade

Washed-up Broadway impresario Chester Kent (James Cagney) stakes what’s left of business and reputation on staging live curtain-raising mini-musicals for movie theaters, but if crooked partners don’t write his final act, cutthroat competitors will. Crackling Warners pre-Code effort co-stars Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh; out-of-this-world production numbers from Busby Berkeley include "Honeymoon Hotel," "By a Waterfall," "Shanghai Lil." 105 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.