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Dancers in the Dark (1932)

Dancers in the Dark poster
Directed by
David Burton
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 14m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A taxi dancer gets involved with a big band leader and a gangster. Their relationships lead to dangerous conflicts.

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What happens

Dancers in the Dark is a 1932 American pre-Code film about a taxi dancer (Miriam Hopkins), a big band leader (Jack Oakie), and a gangster (George Raft). George Raft, billed sixth, was listed much lower in the cast than the size of his role indicated because he was at the dawn of his career. His part was as large as any of the other players except for Hopkins and arguably Oakie. The same thing had happened to Raft previously in his earlier film Quick Millions, a gangster vehicle starring Spencer Tracy, in which Raft's role was extremely large and colorful, even featuring some dancing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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