One of the very best movie musicals ever made – and a spoof history of the cinema’s shift from silents to sound to boot. And, in the title number in this 1952 film, Gene Kelly sings and dances with pure, unbridled joy – in a sequence still a joy to behold 63 years later. Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and the unfairly underappreciated comic actress Jean Hagen co-star.