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  • Actors: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman
  • Directors: Busby Berkeley
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Feb 2007
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000KRNMLC
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 37,140 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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This extravagant Busby Berkeley musical, first released in 1943, features Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, and Benny Goodman.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother with the plot. Fast forward to the bananas and `No Love, No Nothin', 14 Aug 2008
By C. O. DeRiemer (San Antonio, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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The only problem with The Gangs All Here is the plot. It keeps getting in the way of the production numbers. Busby Berkeley manages to shoehorn four major numbers in the just the first 30 minutes, and he doesn't let up much after that. These numbers include everything Busby Berkeley could think of, from Benny Goodman swinging "Minnie's in the Money" to Alice Faye singing "No Love, No Nothin'" to some bizarre extravaganzas featuring lots of thighs, bananas and Carmen Miranda. You'll want to hit the fast forward button at regular intervals to get past the dull parts between them. The story is corny, the romantic misunderstanding is...yawn... and the acting is often weak (James Ellison as the male lead) or prissily unfunny (Edward Everett Horton). Still, the Technicolor is as garish as you could want and the songs by Harry Warren and Leo Robin work well. There's little time to think of anything except the numbers and what Berkeley does with them. Says one film commentator, "[Berkeley] was a dance director who couldn't dance. In a Berkeley production it was the camera that danced." I'm not sure anyone could watch "The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat" and not be in awe of how Berkeley not only made use of all those chorines with the giant fruit, but how he kept the action going using his camera in intricately plotted movement. If you watch the Tutti Frutti number a second time, see how many of the chorus dancers you can spot with grim determination, not smiles, on their faces as they lug those giant bananas around and struggle to hit their marks while the camera swoops and turns.

The story? Alice Faye is a showgirl. James Ellison is a soldier, the son of a wealthy family soon off to the Pacific. They fall for each other, but he has a sort of girl friend. His parents and the girl's parents think they should get hitched. Will Alice and Jim work things out? They do after approximately 100 minutes. Among the relatives and friends are Carmen Miranda, Eugene Pallette, Charlotte Greenwood and Horton,

There are a number of reasons to watch this movie, especially if you're interested in Busby Berkeley. It turned out to be his swan song as a major force in the movies. For me, the production numbers are a lot of fun, but the best reason is that classic song by Warren and Robin that Alice Faye introduced...

No love, no nothin'
Until my baby comes home.
No fun with no one,
As long as baby must roam.

I promised him I'd wait for him
Till even Hades froze.
I'm lonesome, heaven knows,
But what I said still goes.

No love, no nothin'
And that's a promise I'll keep.
No sir, no nothin'
I'm getting plenty of sleep.

My heart's on strike,
And tho' its like
An empty honeycomb,
No love, no sir, no nothin'
Till my baby comes home.

This became one of America's great songs of longing during WWII. If you want to hear more of them, you can't do better than Jo Stafford and her CD, G.I. Jo - Songs of World War II.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Its alright, 17 Jul 2009
By Alex da Silva (Lytham St. Annes, UK) - See all my reviews
Andy (James Ellison) meets Edie (Alice Faye) and they fall in love on the eve that he goes to war. He returns a hero and has a party thrown in his honour where he has 2 women waiting for him - his childhood sweetheart Vivian (Sheila Ryan) and Edie. Who does he end up with?

The story is irrelevant as the film is an excuse to churn out musical numbers. The songs are not that good. Benny Goodman sings the only decent songs despite looking like he's a retard. Apart from the musical numbers, the film is only ever good whenever Carmen Miranda is on screen - she's completely mad - and will have you laughing. The support characters Peyton Potter (Edward Everett Horton) and Andrew Mason Snr (Eugene Palette) are not at all funny but Mrs Potter (Charlotte Greenwood) does well, and is in one of the better musical numbers.

There are a couple of Busby Berkeley set pieces that stand out. The first is set on a tropical island where girls dance with 6 foot bananas while Carmen Miranda sings "The girl in the Tutti-Frutti hat". Its not a particularly good song but its a spectacle. The other spectacle occurs at the end.....if you think psychedelia started in the 1960's.....well, you're wrong......

Overall, a few of the musical numbers, Carmen Miranda and the crazy end-piece make this film worth keeping on to for another viewing.
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