Burlesque: The Night They Raided Minsky's PERFECT GENTLEMAN
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- Release Date: 1968
- Runtime: 99 min
- Genre: Comedy
- Starring: Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, Norman Wisdom, Forrest Tucker ... see all
- Director: William Friedkin
- Plot: Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the... Read more
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Quaker girl Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland) comes to New York in hopes of securing work as a dancing interpreter of religious stories.
Happily, producer Norman Lear is able to accommodate several nostalgic re-creations of such burlesque chestnuts as "Crazy House" and "Meet Me Round the Corner," as well as six delightful in-period songs penned by Bye Bye Birdie's Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, the best of which is the ribald "Perfect Gentleman.
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Minsky's
laweekly.com –
2009-02-12
The raid of Minsky's Burlesque house on New York's Lower East Side in 1925 - initiated when dancer Mary Dawson of Pennsylvania removed her top and then allowed her bare breasts to sway - was the basis of William Friedkin's... ... Full Article
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June 27, 2008
dvdtalk.com –
2008-06-27
Savant's happy to have received a number of interesting emails about The Night The Raided Minsky's . I've appended most of them to the bottom of the review. I've also noted that newspaper reviewers and even magazines like The New ... Full Article
The Night They Raided Minsky's
sfgate.com –
2008-06-22
This 1968 William Friedkin comedy set in 1925 New York will be appreciated by those who enjoy the corny humor and bawdy broads of burlesque. ... Full Article
" The Night They Raided Minsky's " is being promoted as some sort of laff-a-minit, slapstick extravaganza, but it isn't.It has the courage to try for more than that and just about succeeds. ... Full Article