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Runtime 113 min / genres Comedy / release Date 1944 / Country USA / cast Mary Astor / Download movie to tragoudi tis agapise. Download Movie To tragoudi tis agapi.

Download Movie To tragoudi tis agapes. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Watched: May 2018
Rating: 5/10
Told with four coming-of-age vignettes: Introductions. Halloween. Christmas Ball. The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair,
Embraces the eponymous city and romanticizes the American family,
Lovely costumes, cinematography, and production design,
Fun soundtrack- brought us Garland's "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "The Trolley Song"
But a flimsy plot, underdeveloped characters, and unimpressive acting combine to make this not much more than a forgettable feel-good musical.
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Next to "Easter Parade. Meet Me In St. Louis" is my favourite Judy Garland vehicle from the MGM film-factory days. Chock full of those freshly scrubbed, wholesome family values that Hollywood used to love to propagate (if not necessarily emulate) the picture is a warm, endearing fantasy with just enough realism to keep it out of the treacle jar.
Opening in the summer of 1904, it starts innocently enough with Esther Smith (Judy Garland) mooning over boy next door John Truitt (Tom Drake) older sister Rose (Lucille Bremer) pining for Warren Sheffield (Robert Sully) with everyone happily laughing and singing about the impending world's fair coming to St. Louis next spring. So far, so predictably good. But then the plot gets seriously leavened as we are introduced to Tootie Smith (Margaret O'Brien) the youngest sister of the clan whose girlish pranks and blood-curdling prose mix a little comedy with some genuinely mean-spirited Halloween behavior that take us to the darker side of human nature, adding some much needed sinister malevolence when it is most needed. But there's more as the plot thickens still further when patriarch Alonzo Smith (Leon Ames) imperiously (albeit with the best of intentions) informs everyone, the day following Halloween, that the family is leaving St. Louis for New York. Initially laughed off, this unexpected announcement turns out to be one post-Halloween trick that is no treat as nobody, wife Anna (Mary Astor) included, is much amused.
"I don't believe it!
"It's true: I'm to start the first of the year. We'll leave right after Christmas."
With noteworthy attention to period detail, the film is brilliantly directed by Vincent Minnelli, trumpets some excellent acting from its ensemble cast, and includes an engaging Ralph Blane/Hugh Martin score that, for the first time in motion picture history integrates the songs directly into the plot, something pioneered for the stage a year earlier by Rodgers and Hammerstein when "Oklahoma" premiered on Broadway. Better yet, Meet Me In St. Louis" also deftly combines Christmas candy and homespun virtue with the contemporary reality of the danger of making the business agenda, the bottom line, the sole arbitrator of what really counts, even if that wasn't the film's original purpose. Indeed, with the Smith's standing in for all of us, the movie is not just an enjoyable, warm/fuzzies romp through a bygone era. It is also a timely reminder that even the best of well intentioned actions can elicit unforeseen responses, that people, not impersonal automatons, are the final repository of all human actions, noble, imperious or mean-spirited.

 

 

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