Show Boat (1936)
I've had better luck with musicals from the 30's than any other decade. I thought I may like this anyway as the settings appeal to me, and I also like how it spans many years. This was an interesting movie regarding race. There's a startling musical number performed by a white woman while black audience members view from the back rows. It's also another movie in which blacks are shown to have menial jobs. On the other hand, one of the storylines deals with race, and I thought the message was anti-racist. Plus, Hattie McDaniel owns every second she's in the movie, like always, and I thought Paul Robeson singing Ol Man River was the best scene of the movie.