It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER  (1955)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
    Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd,
    Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, David Burns
This isn't really a sequel to "On the Town", but it could be. Three G.I.buddies go to their favorite New York bar after V-E Day and make a pact to meet up there again in ten years. They do, but by then their lives have moved on. So this one's not about kicking around the city and picking up girls (though Gene Kelly does make a move on Cyd Charisse). It's about the passing of time and dreams not quite coming true. And it's a cinemascopic poke at the incipient pervasiveness and banality of television. The leads are all hoofers and the dance numbers are the highlights. Kelly on roller skates. Charisse in a gym with a chorus line of pugs. And Kelly, Dailey and Kidd showing off their dexterity with garbage-can lids. Jack Benny's old nemesis, Frank Nelson, appears unbilled as a nightclub announcer.