Top cast:Anna-Maria Sieklucka,Michele Morrone,Bronislaw Wroclawski
Director:Pavel Ruminov
Genre:Music
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2010
Storyline:In its own way, the film satirizes stuffy upper-class manners while glorifying in them and providing wish-fulfillment for mid-30's audiences, as painfully demonstrated in the conclusion of Woody Allen'sThe Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), as a dejected, bereft Cecilia (Mia Farrow) watched the famous "Cheek o Cheek" song-and-dance number from this film, and her face slowly transformed into one of rapt joy - despite being jobless, having been abandoned by a man she left her true love for, and having an abusive, unfaithful spouse.In he ambiguous ending, like many of TV's cartoon characters, he walked off the stage - and literally walked on water - reinforced by the film's final refrain: "Life is a state of mind.As a clock gonged twelve o'clock midnight (it actually struck 13 times), the camera moved to a fireplace and before it, a massive wooden coffin set on a table.And I'm reachin' out.Riff: For what?Tony: I don't know.Riff: A dame?Tony: It's right outside the door.Just around the corner.But it's comin'.Riff: What is?Tony: I don't know.It's like the kick I used to get from bein' a Jet, you know?Riff: Oh, well now you're talkin'.Oh man, without a gang, you're an orphan.With a gang, you walk in twos, threes, fours.And when your crew is the best, when you're a Jet, you're out in the sun, buddy-boy.You're home free home.Tony: Riff, I've had it.Riff: Tony, Tony, look at me, will ya? Come on, look at me...Now, I never asked the time of day from a clock, did I? I never asked nothin' from nobody.But I'm askin' you: 'Come to the dance tonight.'Tony: I promised Doc I'd clean up the store tonight.Riff: Then do it after the dance.Tony, I already told the guys you'd be there.If you don't show up, I'll be marked lousy.Tony: What time'd ya tell 'em?Riff: Ten.For me Tony, for Riff!Tony: Ten it is.(They shake)Riff: Womb to tomb!Tony: Birth to Earth.And I'll live to regret this.Riff: Who knows? Maybe what you're waitin' for will be twitchin' at the dance tonight?Tony sings: "Something's Coming," a song of expectancy about the coming night:Something's Coming:Could be, who knows? There's something due any day.