Pre-Code Hollywood: Wonder Bar

This week at the Chauvel Cinematheque catch the outrageous Warner Brothers musical Wonder Bar starring Dick Powell, Al Jolson and Dolores Del Rio. The film was choreographed by Busby Berkeley and directed by Lloyd Bacon in 1934. The show-stopper is a black-face Jolson singing, Goin' to Heaven on a Mule.

Here's a link to an interesting article by David Boxwell on the Senses of Cinema website.

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/02/22/wonder.html

And here's the trailer. Check it out.