42nd Street (Warner Archive, Blu - ray)-- Released in 1933 by Warner Bros., which specialized in snappy, fast - paced pictures with working class heroes and street smart characters, 42nd Street launched a series of great backstage musicals that
featured lavish production numbers in a Broadway culture where the depression was a reality just offstage and the dancers were one flop away from the breadlines.
Still, Passengers is lucidly directed by Morten Tyldum, the Norwegian whose first English - language
feature was The Imitation Game, and the
production design by Guy Hendrix Dyas, who won a Bafta for his work on Inception, is strikingly good, particularly all the elements that are not space - rockety but cruise - linery, giant malls and
lavish cabins, all on a colossal scale.