A has-been star of movie musicals (Fred Astaire) agrees to take part in a Broadway show, playing opposite a ballerina (Cyd Charisse). The stars fear they cannot work together, but the show's success is under a bigger threat from its pretentious musical director (Jack Buchanan), who turns a simple story into an overblown monster. When opening night is a flop, it is up to the cast to save the show. ...

Award-winning comedy revolving around an Egyptian police band who arrive in Israel to play a gig, only to take the wrong bus & find themselves stranded in a desolate Israeli village. Out of desperation, two of the band members, conductor Tawfiq (Sasson Gabai) & playboy Haled (Saleh Bakri), accept an invitation from cafe owner, Dina (Ronit Elkabetz), to stay at her residence. The two distinctly different cultures soon realise the universal bonds of love, music & life. ...

Jean-Luc Godard's homage to Hollywood pulp fiction movies of the 1940s which also gave its name in the 1990s to Quentin Tarantino's production company. Franz (Sami Frey) & Arthur (Claude Brasseur), a couple of Parisian streetwise kids team up with the shy Odile (Anna Karina) to plan a robbery. The trio's over-developed fantasies come together whilst visiting the Louvre, cafes & even play-acting shoot-outs & it soon becomes apparent that the robbery is definitely not going to go according to plan. ...

Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? This title explores this question & reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. It also uncovers the shared grammar that allows us to understand the cultural language & evolution of popular music. ...

Pair of spin-offs from the Smokey & the Bandit franchise: In ' Bandit 1
- Bandit goes Country' (1994) the director of ' The Cannonball
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