Personalities and relationships are made and un-made in this story about dance contests and the contestants. Precode romances in this short-ish B film from Warner Brothers.

If you have about an hour to kill and want to see what happens when people in the 1930s made decisions while vibrating with caffeine and jazz, this is your movie. It is definitely worth a watch if you like 'pre-code' films that feel a bit more raw and less polite than the stuff that came later. You'll probably hate it...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Ray Enright

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"If you have about an hour to kill and want to see what happens when people in the 1930s made decisions while vibrating with caffeine and jazz, this is your movie. It is definitely worth a watch if you like 'pre-code' films that feel a bit more raw and less polite than the stuff that came later. You'll probably hate it if you need a plot that makes sense or characters who think for more than two seconds before ruining their lives. Dancing Sweeties is basically a speedrun of a relationship. It s..."

Lee Moran
Harry Fried, Joseph Jackson, Gordon Rigby
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