The best Dave O'Brien’s music movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Dave O'Brien’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Dave O'Brien.
Kiss Me Kate
7/10
Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.
Student Tour
5.1/10
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Wonder Bar
6.5/10
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Flying High
5.6/10
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Ship Cafe
6.2/10
The singing stoker and the vamp.
College Humor
5.9/10
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Sitting Pretty
6.4/10
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.
Murder at the Vanities
6.5/10
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Good News
6.3/10
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
Gift of Gab
4.9/10
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Starlight Over Texas
5.6/10
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.
The Yanks Are Coming
4.1/10
A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight.
