THE GANG'S ALL HERE (BLU-RAY)

“Berkeley, a master of motion and abstraction, understood how to make dance distinctively cinematic, and he proves it here…He does the same with music, turning performances by Benny Goodman and the big band into rhythmic visual spectacles worthy of the sonic swing. The fashions and the social aspects of The Gang’s All Here can be precisely dated; the brilliant visual imagination at work there has yet to be assimilated.” - Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“[Busby Berkeley’s] wildest, most delirious picture…An escape from wartime anxieties and austerities into an extravagant, fantastical world.” - Philip French, The Guardian

The singular Busby Berkeley’s first film in Technicolor, The Gang’s All Here (1943) is a hallucinatory excursion into spectacular visuals, mad choreography, and delicious music. Nominally starring the lovely Alice Faye and featuring the scintillating talents of Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, the film is perhaps best remembered today for the efforts of Carmen Miranda, leading a corps of banana-wielding dancers in the scandalous “The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat.”

LANGUAGE: English
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 1.33:1
AUDIO: English 2.0 DTS-HD MA / English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
SUBTITLES: English SDH
1943 / Color
103 MINUTES
NOT RATED

Special Features: Isolated Score Track (with some dialogue and effects) / Audio Commentary with Film Historian Drew Casper / Audio Commentary with Film Historians Glenn Kenny, Ed Hulse, and Farran Smith Nehme / Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star / Alice Faye’s Last Film: We Still Are! / Deleted Scene: The $64 Question / Original Theatrical Trailer