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Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792844822
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792844823
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 149 minutes
Sales Rank: 2903
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 03, 1955
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Description:
Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blain (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank Loesser (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) masterpiece, unleashing a 'spectacular, song-and-dance show that's loaded with entertainment' (New York Journal-American). Featuring hits like 'Luck Be a Lady' and 'A Woman in Love,' this smash film version of one of Broadway's most popular musicals is guaranteed, rip-roaring 'four-starentertainment' (New York Daily News). The slickest big-time New York City gamblers,Sky Masterson (Brando) and Nathan Detroit (Sinatra), can't resist making or taking a bet on anything. So when a pretty missionary (Simmons) sets up shop in the neighborhood, Nathan stakes a grand that Sky can't seduce her. But all bets are off when Sky falls madly in love in this romantic musical spectacular that sets the Big Apple afire with excitement!
Amazon.com:
Joseph Mankiewicz's brightly stylized film of Frank Loesser's classic musical (based on the stories of Damon Runyon) casts the criminal underworld as a harmless fantasy in this whimsical vision of the Big Apple. Nonsingers Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons acquit themselves fine in the lead roles as high-rolling gambler Sky Masterson and Salvation Army missionary Sarah Brown. It's odd casting, to say the least. Frank Sinatra, who plays the good old reliable Nathan Detroit (who runs 'the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York') is left with novelty tunes while husky Brando delivers the love songs and hits, including 'Luck Be a Lady.' But in the context of the colorful dialogue and comically affected speech patterns (a giddy gangster-speak straight out of Runyon's breezy stories) the song performances aren't the least out of place. Stubby Kaye, reprising his role as Nicely Nicely from the Broadway run, practically steals the show in his few scenes and his show-stopping solo 'Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat.' The film is overlong at two and a half hours and somewhat stagily confined in the stylized, studio-bound sets--perhaps the mark of a director who had never helmed a musical before--but a terrific cast of eccentrics and Michael Kidd's high-energy choreography gives the film a memorable and enchanting character. --Sean Axmaker
Average Rating: 
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I bought this movie on a whim and I loved it! the DVD ws in great condition no scratches on the DVD or skips while watching the movie! I love it!
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so don't buy it if you have a wide-screen TV - unless you like watching a little picture in the middle of a big screen.
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In the "Great Blunders in History" category, Samuel Goldwyn stands right up there with Neville Chamberlin and Wylie Coyote. Afterall Guys & Dolls has to rank among the top five great American musicals of all time. Only Showboat, Carousel and Gypsy deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Guys & Dolls. So the question begs to be asked, why so big a blunder by Goldwyn? Simple...He had one of the richest and most beautifully crafted musicals ever. Guys & Dolls seems positively born ... Read More
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Having owned the previous non anamorphic DVD version, I was expecting this DVD to be much improved.
Guess what? There is practically NO difference in picture quality, despite the fact that this version is anamorphic.
The box says "Remastered in High Definition"...what a joke.
Stay away until the powers that be do this film correctly.
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This is a true classic. Greta actors, wonderful script, some of the best Broadway music in one show. Another must see for the "musical" enthusiast.
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