Meet Me In St. Louis
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
1944
****
Meet Me In St. Louis represents the big Studio Musical at its best. That said, you either love this kind of thing or not. It's not really my kind of thing but I cannot fault the great music numbers, the big colourful sets and the overall production. The characters are actually very well written although a few performances are a bit two dimensional. It's a wonderful example of the best of cinema in the era though, it is also heaped in Hollywood history, for example without Meet Me In St. Louis there would be no Liza Minnelli. It represents a rich and glorious time in cinema that we are unlikely to see in the same way again, like it or not, it can never be reproduced or matched in either charm or grandeur.