IMDb plot summary: A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, and Noah Beery.
Bright Lights is a showbiz romantic drama involving murder and several different romantic plotlines. It's a short film with several lengthy musical numbers, which unfortunately means there's not nearly enough time for all the plot they're trying to add in vain. It's an oddly paced film, with huge amounts of plot squeezed into tiny two-minute bursts, which then gets interrupted by a 10-minute musical number (too often a racist song about African life). I'm not one to complain about a film having lots of musical numbers, but they feel jarring against the dense plot and dozens of characters being crammed into the rest of the film. I'm not sure if I'm getting tired of my 1930 project or if I've seen most of the ones I'd like from the year, but this is another dull entry in the list.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Bright Lights < Pete's Dragon (1977)
Bright Lights < Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Bright Lights > Michael Clayton
Bright Lights > X-Men: The Last Stand
Bright Lights < The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Bright Lights < Bad Moms
Bright Lights < Steve Jobs
Bright Lights < The Chocolate War
Bright Lights > 30:Minutes or Less
Bright Lights > Charlie Wilson's War
Bright Lights > Green Book
Bright Lights < The Toy That Saved Christmas
Final spot: #3195 out of 3949, or 19%.
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