pDownload Movie Singin' in the Rain - Fortieth Anniversary Edition [] Online or Start Watchp br pFor download click here : b bp br pDecades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly MetroGoldwynMayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. Indeed, when the prestigious British film magazine ISight SoundI conducts its international critics poll in the second year of every decade, this 1952 MGM picture is ItheI American musical that consistently ranks among the 10 best movies ever made. It's not only a great songanddance piece starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and a sprightly Debbie Reynolds it's also an affectionately funny insider spoof about the film industry's uneasy transition from silent pictures to quottalkies.quot Kelly plays debonair star Don Lockwood, whose leading lady Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) has a screechy voice hilariously illsuited to the new technology (and her glamorous screen image). Among the musical highlights: O'Connor's knockout quotMake 'Em Laughquot the big quotBroadway Melodyquot production number and, best of all, that charming little title ditty in which Kelly makes movie magic on a drenched set with nothing but a few puddles, a lamppost, and an umbrella.