444: Why People Don't Like Musicals

Published: Feb. 3, 2019, 5:04 p.m.

b'Our Old Movie Club visits two musicals\\u2014but they\\u2019re both unusual. From near the beginning of the sound era comes \\u201cGold Diggers of 1933\\u201d, a Depression-era tale of showgirls and swells and misunderstandings with enormous Busby Berkeley production numbers. And from the early days of Beatlemania comes 1964\\u2019s \\u201cA Hard Day\\u2019s Night\\u201d, intended (at least by its financiers) to be disposable boy-band fluff, but ended up being one of the most influential films of the 20th century.'