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Meet Me at the Fair (1952)

Director: Douglas Sirk

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From Time Out Film Guide

The second of Sirk's 'trilogy' of witty, light-hearted musicals nostalgically evoking small-town America around the turn of the century, blessed with an engaging and lively performance from Dan Dailey as the travelling medicine show proprietor who hides out a runaway orphan (Allen) and woos the pretty delegate from the orphanage board (Lynn) who is supposed to bring him back. The song-and-dance numbers are adequate rather than inspired (although the backstage routine involving Dailey and Carole Mathews is staged and shot with astonishing virtuosity); but Sirk's customary concern with hypocrisy and intolerance is, given the genre and overall tone of the piece, surprisingly to the fore in a subplot about corrupt politicians (admirably headed by the darkly handsome O'Brian).

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Cast & crew

Director: Douglas Sirk

Producer: Albert J Cohen

Cast: Dan Dailey, Diana Lynn, Hugh O'Brian, Scatman Crothers, Carole Mathews, Chet Allen full cast

Genre(s): Musicals

Duration: 87 mins


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