- Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell
- Directors: George Sidney
- Writers: Isobel Lennart, Natalie Marcin
- Producers: Joe Pasternak
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Language English
- Classification: U
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 27 Mar 2000
- Run Time: 143 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CI3Q
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,330 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
With this being the film that launched Frank Sinatra to major things for MGM, this proves to be a great classic musical that hits all the right spots. Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra play two sailors on shore leave and who both fall for the same woman. Cue some great song and dance numbers by the pair, together and apart. Kathryn Grayson is also excellent as the female lead with also some great songs to sing. Also, watch out for the much celebrated sequence with Gene Kelly partnering Jerry the mouse (from Tom & Jerry). All in all, an excellent film.
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This film is a veritable cornucopia of music and dance for most of its 140 minutes. The story concerns two sailors (Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly) on leave in Los Angeles where they meet up with the lovely Kathryn Grayson as a budding classical singer. They rescue her young nephew when he goes walkabout in the city. She is keen to audition for Jose Iturbi (playing himself), who displays a gentle, laconic style in his responses to the comments of Chip (Sinatra) whom he is supposed to know but in fact has never before met. The plot is insubstantial but the music is lovely and the dances quite spectacular. In his Spanish dance, to the tune of La Cumparsita by Rodriguez, Kelly looks more like Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks as he hurtles acrobatically around the set. Kelly does a second Spanish dance with little Sharon McManus, but perhaps the most original dance is of Kelly with Jerry (of Tom and Jerry) to a Sammy Fain and Ralph Freed number called The Worry Song - a masterful bit of animation.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Gene Kelly appears here as one of two sailors, with Frank Sinatra playing second fiddle and losing out to Gene in wooing Kathryn Grayson. Gene is usually part of a trio when he plays a serviceman (On the Town, It's Always Fair Weather). The Gerry the Mouse sequence is the usual MGM gimmick for providing Gene with something different, as with roller skates and dustbin lids in 'It's always Fair Weather'and a newspaper in 'Summer Stock'. Columbia had done the same with Gene's 'alter ego' dance in 'Cover Girl'. The main problem with dancers is that without gimmicks they become boring and repetitive. Curiously I don't find this the case when watching Fred Astaire. The black and white format at RKO has a style of its own. But with colour you need gimmicks, as seen with Astaire dancing with his split images in Paramount's 'Blue Skies'. Without Kathryn Grayson this film would be a disaster. The relationship between Gene and Frank is characterless when comparing it with Fred and Bing in 'Blue Skies'. But Gene is good with children, whether it's Dean Stockwell or the kids in 'American in Paris'. For all its minor blemishes one has to remember that this film is a vehicle for Grayson, Kelly and Frank, the last-mentioned being introduced as a sop for the bobby-soxers. If you are looking for a plot, forget it.
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