NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Indicator Blu-ray (September 2024): Indicator have transferred Sidney Lanfield's You'll Never Get Rich to Blu-ray. It is cited as being from a "4K restoration". There was an OOP Twilight Time Blu-ray HERE back in the day, and another bare-bones Blu-ray HERE. We own none to compare. This looks to be at Indicator's usual high standard. It's on a dual-layered disc with a max'ed out bitrate. Grain is rich and consistent and contrast effectively rendered. Many of the musical numbers are quite extensive and look glorious in this 1080P transfer.  

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On their Blu-ray, Indicator use a linear PCM mono track (24-bit) in the original English language. You'll Never Get Rich has no demonstrative effects. We get plenty of Cole Porter in the soundtrack that includes "Rehearsal Duet" (Astaire and Hayworth dancing side-by-side), "Boogie Barcarolle", Dream Dancing played at the nightclub, "Shootin' the Works for Uncle Sam" with Astaire and chorus parading through Grand Central Terminal, Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye played and sung by The Four Tones (Lucius "Dusty" Brooks, Leon Buck, Rudolph Hunter and John Porter,) jazzy "March Milastaire (A-Stairable Rag)" with a tap solo by Astaire, rumba-ish "So Near and Yet So Far" - boogie-woogie "The Wedding Cake Walk" large number with Astaire, Hayworth and chorus dancing on a giant armored tank replica, and lastly Mendelssohn's Frühlingslied (Spring Song) Op. 62 #6. These are available as an isolated music & effects track option. Clean, authentically flat sound. Indicator offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region 'B'-locked Blu-ray.

The Indicator Blu-ray offers a new commentary by film historian Peter Tonguette author of Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series.) He describes the film as a Fred Astaire 'Service comedy' (Armed Services) and occasional musical. He finds the film fully engaging and comments on the workman-like style of the director Sidney Lanfield (Where There's Life, Sorrowful Jones). Peter discusses many of the pre-war Astaire films, his co-stars and how much of the narrative take a back seat to the stars dancing and the intense appeal of Rita Hayworth. He quotes from Peter Levinson's biography Puttin' On the Ritz: Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache. It's another excellent commentary from Tonguette. A Radiant Star is new and spends 20-minute with critic and writer Christina Newland who discusses Rita Hayworth and her acclaimed dancing partnership with Fred Astaire. From 1985, playing to the film, is Fred Astaire’s Approach to Filmmaking - a 77-minute archival audio recording of a lecture delivered at the National Film Theatre, London, by John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing: The Films of Fred Astaire. Indicator include a 20-minute Super 8 version of You'll Never Get Rich. This is a paired-down home cinema presentation. There is an original theatrical trailer and image gallery of promotional and publicity material. The package includes a limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay by Rick Burin, an archival interview with Rita Hayworth, extracts from an archival profile of Fred Astaire, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits. 

Sidney Lanfield's You'll Never Get Rich has Astaire doing his hypnotic hoofing but stealing the show is cinema-goddess Rita Hayworth. The pair would follow up the next year with the, even superior, You Were Never Lovelier - to, sadly, limit their collaborations to two with a 19-year difference in their ages. In You'll Never Get Rich we have some romantic situational comedy with backdrop of boot camp high-jinks. An early sub-plot utilizes a lecherous producer Martin Cortland (Robert Benchley) trying to hide his philandering from his wife. You'll Never Get Rich has the cache of Astaire and Hayworth’s first pairing and the latter given the 'star treatment' with the camera, and our eyes, focused frequently on her bright, confident visage and shapely form. The Indicator Blu-ray has the enjoyable film looking and sounding top-shelf with commentary, booklet, interviews and more as valued supplements. Recommended.

Gary Tooze