Product: Stormy Weather [VHS] (1980)
Rating: 5.0
A treasure of a movie!
Maybe it's true that the plot of this movie isn't all that great, but that's not what Stormy Weather is for. To a large extent, this movie is Bojangle's biography. Bojangles does a spectacular job not only dancing, but also acting and singing, and I think he's reasonably convincing as Lena's love interest considering that he was 70 years old when this movie was made. (He looks like he's in his thirties.) Then there's Fats Waller... any footage of him is to be treasured. His performance with Ada Brown is absolutely classic Fats. The saddest thing about this movie is that we lost Fats immediately after the filming -- he died on the train on the way home at the age of 39. The end of this movie is so rousing, we feel like climbing through our television screen and onto the set to join in the dancing. Cab Calloway is in fine form in his famous zoot suit!