Wow...this won 5 Oscars & Best Pic?

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2012)

The quality of everything but the movie is good, it is a perfect 1940-1950 looking film about the 20's. However making it a completely silent movie was IMO a disaster. After 5 minutes we returned the movie to Blockbuster and got another. Sorry if I wanna watch a silent movie it will be one with Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin/WC Fields. I could not eject this movie from my DVD player fast enough! How this movie ever got made is beyond me it was that bad. I am bewildered as to how this film won so many Oscars let alone the Grand Prize! It seemed to me to be a remake of Singing in the Rain but black and white as well as silent. Go out for the evening and skip this film.