RKO Double Feature: Old Man Rhythm / To Beat the Band (MOD)

RKO Double Feature: Old Man Rhythm / To Beat the Band (MOD)Oscar winner* Johnny Mercer gets into the swing of things as he co writes the songs and makes his only screen appearances in this snappy double feature of RKO musicals. In Old Man Rhythm, a businessman (George Barbier) hears his son (Charles Buddy Rogers) is spending more time on a gold digging coed than his studies, so he enrolls as a freshman to straighten him out. A rollicking college musical that features an early appearance by Betty Grable and

Cliff meets a gentle war widow (Dorothy McGuire) as profoundly altered by the conflict as any of the men

and Long also knows precisely what he needs to do: get those barrels of booze for himself so that he can make a fat Depression-era profit

the one that inspired Apocalypse Now

Earl Rogers (Treat Williams: Prince of the City

Corky draws unsettling power from Robert Blake's intense

shoulder taping

Stephen Rea

outrageous superstar Bette Midler sings

including Gone With the Wind)

Adding spice to her customary beauty and splendid presence

Reservoir Dogs)

Broadway's crookedest producer