40 Films in Robotech: Cabaret (1972)
My Dad loved this movie and played the soundtrack frequently in the house I grew up in. Me, on the other hand, uh…not so big a fan. ROBOTECH MENTION: Robotech author Jack McKinney references Cabaret in this excerpt on page 80 of the book Robotech Metamorphosis (1987)… Jack McKinney also references Marlene Dietrich in this excerpt. We'll get to her film later this year. SYNOPSIS: In his book All-Time Movie Favorites published by Octopus Books Limited in 1977, Joel W. Finler writes about Cabaret : “ Uncompromising in its representation of Berlin in the early Thirties, Cabaret (Allied Artists/ABC/Cinerama, 1972) is a distinctively modern film musical and the first to earn an “X” certificate. With its powerful and effective use of cross-cutting to relate the cabaret setting to the broader events occurring in Germany at the time, the film marks something of a departure from the original stage production; and it ...
