Yolanda and The Thief "Black Theme or Star"

Yolanda and The Thief "Black Theme or Star"Fred Astaire gracing an imaginative, surreal 16 minute ballet with his wit and unerring dance mastery; a jazzy, glorious in Technicolor street carnival pulsing with movement and music; director Vincente Minnelli's lush, savvy sophistication evident in every scene these elements highlight Yolanda and the Thief, a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about a con artist (Astaire) in a mythical Latin American country who convinces a naive heiress (Lucille

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" knowing the slightest misstep means disaster

and Tim Burton co-produces this thrill-ride of a movie that thunders along on Batmobile

Then a smitten artist (Melvyn Douglas) learns Margot's secret and begins a charade of his own by passing himself off as her beloved hubby

giving pretense a swift kick in the comedy keester as she mother-hens her classmates through a booze-and-bad-boy Manhattan fling

Tensions between them finally culminate in a mass showdown on Jupiter's moons

Bruce decides to manage a Little League team

Wrestling a bear was easy compared to this

wrangling an unfettered dalliance with an eager temptress and pursuing rodeo cash prizes so he can someday buy his own spread

includes Edmund Gwenn as an avuncular housemaster and Peter Lawford as an arrogant upperclassman