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DVD ~ Marlon Brando
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  • Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith
  • Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Abe Burrows, Ben Hecht, Damon Runyon, Jo Swerling
  • Producers: Samuel Goldwyn
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English, French
  • Subtitles: Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 18 April 2000
  • Run Time: 150 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0792844823
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 74,495 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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This CinemaScope treatment of Frank Loesser's hit Broadway musical Guys and Dolls is a deeply rewarding visual and musical experience. Frank Sinatra turns in one of his best screen performances running a close second to Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons, looking adorable and singing sweetly. In essence this is a piece of photographed theatre mounted on a handsome scale. The striking set designs and a brilliantly executed soundtrack are courtesy of two Broadway craftsmen Oliver Smith and conductor Jay Blackton. Photographer Harry Stradling brings a meticulous eye for detail when his camera stationed on the auditorium side of the frame, peers into Miss Adelaide's bathroom cupboard as she views the lines of medicine bottles in her celebrated "lament". Sinatra, in his vocal prime, sings a new number to Adelaide (Vivian Blaine)--arranged by Nelson Riddle--and Brando and Simmons strike chords in all their scenes from their opening duet "I'll Know" through to their evening out at a Havana bistro where she gets pie-eyed on a Bacardi milk-shake, tipsily wondering "If I were a Bell". Stubby Kaye also from the Broadway cast recreates the show-stopping "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat". Michael Kidd's choreography for "Luck Be a Lady" is razor-sharp and superbly captured in the CinemaScope format, though the formalised staging of the opening ought to have been rethought for this medium. The biggest pity is that Loesser amended some of his lyrics and replaced several tunes from his original score with inferior material.

On the DVD: The DVD trailer hosted by Ed Sullivan makes much of the $1,000,000 cheque producer Samuel Goldwyn paid for the rights and the previews of the picture he obtained for his weekly television show. There's no denying that the remastered stereophonic soundtrack captures the Broadway sound to thrilling effect without it being overglamorised. The picture looks splendid too--never settle for the compromise version we've endured all these years on television! --Adrian Edwards

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable!, 8 Dec 2006
By The BlackFerret "Steve The BlackFerret" (Plymouth UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guys And Dolls [VHS] [1955] (VHS Tape)
Of the 4 leads in this musical,only Vivienne Blaine belongs in a musical, being a major vaudeville & Broadway singer & hoofer before this was made.

Despite this, it's a thoroughly enjoyable experience, good colour and sound and an outstanding supporting turn by Stubby Kaye. Jean Simmons retains her English innocence well as a Salvation Army lass and even assists in helping you forget that Damon Runyon's picaresque language translates hopelessly to screen.

But the best bits are Brando & Sinatra. Brando surprisingly fits well into Sky Masterton and tackles things with enthusiasm. There's also a permanent smirk on his face, because he knows that Frankie wanted HIS part all along, and doesn't it show! Frankie's face throughout looks like he's performing One more for my Baby or Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week.

If you wonder how the film ever got finished in those circumstances, don't worry-it did! It's amazingly good half-a-century on, and a must have-good musical,good laugh,too!
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Broadway - Great Movie, 16 Aug 2003
By Terry Foster (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guys And Dolls [DVD] [1955] (DVD)
The first thing that blew me away with this DVD is the quality of the sound. It has amazing depth and punch; you'd never believe that the soundtrack is almost 50 years old! ...and then, the sumptuous colour; those wonderful, stylised sets; the choreography...never mind the quality of the original material. "Guys and Dolls" is indisputably one of greatest of Broadways shows and here it gets the best of Holywood treatment; a truly class act. The cast is stella and even those who aren't known for their dancing and singing are totally convincing.

The movie gives the impression of a filmed Broadway show - largely due to the wonderful sets - and it works beautifully. It is remarkably true to its Broadway origins only substituting a couple of new songs. For me, the cream of the crop is Vivian Blaine's portrayal of Adelaide. My only gripe is that the film cuts the reprise of her side-splitting "Lament". How could they NOT include the couplet "so much virus inside, that her microscope slide looks like a day at the zoo."?!!!

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Magical Musical., 13 May 2002
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This review is from: Guys And Dolls [DVD] [1955] (DVD)
I would say that anyone who loves musicals will
have seen guys & Dolls-to any one who has not seen this Musical and has no more than a passing
interest in musicals then make the effort- it will
be an experience you will not forget-Marlon Brando singing "A Woman In Love" to Jean Simmons
after he has taken her for dinner in Havana Cuba
is a joy- and Sinatra singing to adelaide the "sue Me " number when she finds that he is running "crap games" and the line of the song "Sue me" -sue me-sue me- shoot bullets through me-I love you- it makes you feel sorr7y for them both-but alls well that ends well when they finally marry in a double wedding ceromony with Brando & Jean Simmons---go out and buy -borrow (-but don't steal,) the video or dvd
and have yourself a ball!!
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