Product: Cadillac Records [Blu-ray] (2008)
Rating: 4.0
Cadillacs and Chess recording studio.
A well written screen script and excellent sound track. Good story line about black blues players, Chess recording studio, and the birth of rock and roll. A very fine cast. Nice history of how 'race' music went mainstream and, eventually became rock and roll. This is not an historically accurate portrayal but, it does posit some questions for the viewer, about Chess, blues, and numerous blues musicians (for exactness in historical fact check the library for researce material).This DVD is for entertainment purposes, with loose association to fact.If one wants an accurate, exact history look elsewhere. If you want a flavor for the era of Chess recording (at which I recorded ) in Chicago, and, entertainment this is the DVD to buy.Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Little Walter, Chuck Berry are well played. Jeffery Wright and Adrien Brody (Muddy Waters and Leonard Chess) are exceptionally well cast, as is Cedric The Entertainer (Willie Dixon.)Romance between Leonard Chess and Etta James (Beyonce Knowles) is rather far off the mark, but, this is entertainment.I was impressed by how well the actors 'mimed' singing and guitar chords, it would have fooled me if I did not play. The guitars and amplifiers are period correct.