A small but perfectly-formed comedy-drama about Broadway legend Danny Rose (Woody Allen) – not a star but perhaps the most hapless agent ever to work in the profession, whose no-hope clients include piano-playing parrots, blind jugglers, one-legged tap dancers and stuttering ventriloquists.

Things change dramatically when an unexpected lounge-music craze threatens to make cheesy crooner Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte) both famous and successful, a situation that natural loser Danny is helplessly ill-equipped to deal with. He proves similarly hapless when Lou turns out to have a mistress (an unrecognisable Mia Farrow) whose mobster ex-boyfriend is none too impressed with the company that she’s currently keeping and decides to advertise this fact at the worst possible moment.

Both laugh-out-loud funny and warmly nostalgic, Broadway Danny Rose is Allen’s heartfelt tribute to the days of New York vaudeville that he himself experienced first-hand when starting out as a comedian two decades earlier – underscored by the fact that the Greek chorus of Broadway veterans chuckling over Danny’s various mishaps and misfortunes are the real thing.

DETAILS:

UK RELEASE DATE: 9th January 2016

Blu-ray RRP: £17.99

Region: B

Rating: PG

Year: 1984

Duration: 84 mins

Language: English

Subtitles: English SDH

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Audio: Mono

B&W

Discs: 1

UK Cat No: FCD1289

UK Barcode: 5027035014579

Directed by: Woody Allen

Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte