If all the songs and ballets were taken out of The Broadway Melody it would still remain an absorbing spoken drama. On the other hand, If the dramatic element were taken away, the film would still be appealing as a spectacular revue.

| Feb 5, 2020

Zowie! What a picture! Humor, drama, romance, action, thrill! And how!

| Feb 17, 2015

Although the audible devices worked exceedingly well in most instances, it is questionable whether it would not have been wiser to leave some of the voices to the imagination.

| Jan 6, 2014

A tedious musical comedy embedded in a routine story like a fly in celluloid.

| Feb 17, 2009

Excellent bits of sound workmanship are that of camera and mike following Page and the heavy along the dance floor to pick up their conversation as they glide.

| Mar 1, 2007

The staging is wooden, the story insipid, and the dialogue sequences mostly painful, but the film's integration of song, dance, and story was a clear narrative advance over the music pictures being released by Warner Brothers and Fox.

| Jan 1, 2000