Re-Release of "The Night They Raided Minsky's"
Click on the image above to buy this poster! 'Minsky’s features an all-star cast, and the first signs of a budding nostalgia for the vanished world of the ‘20s and burlesque theatre in particular; the casting of Burt Lahr – the Cowardly Lion - in a small but poignant role is a tribute to that vanished tradition. Britt Ekland plays an innocent who arrives in the Lower East Side dreaming of being a dancer, who gets caught up in the desperate dramas being played out by the cast of Minsky’s, a burlesque theatre on its last legs. The rather broad little story is intercut with the cast – including Jason Robards and the great Norman Wisdom – performing burlesque routines with a chorus line of the meticulously bad dancers....' Today marks the re-release of 'The Night They Raided Minsky's' on DVD. From Metro.com From the Wikipedia entry for the movie : 'Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "'The Night They Raided Minsky's'" is being ...