Film Forum

Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra in ON THE TOWN

Gene Kelly · 1949 · U.S. · 98 min

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Screenplay and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Music by Leonard Bernstein “New York, New York” warble gobs Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin throughout their dazzling all-location-shot opening montage, eventually cavorting from the Bronx to the Battery with “Miss Turnstiles” Vera-Ellen, man-hungry cabbie Betty Garrett, and passionate paleontologist Ann Miller. “Despite brutal scissoring of the Comden-Green-Bernstein score, still the great liberating musical of the American cinema.” – David Shipman