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Anything Goes [DVD] [1956] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
 
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Anything Goes [DVD] [1956] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Bing Crosby
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  • Actors: Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris
  • Directors: Robert Lewis
  • Writers: Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Sidney Sheldon
  • Producers: Robert Emmett Dolan
  • Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Paramount
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Sep 2005
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000A6T1I6
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,034 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Hardly anything works in Anything Goes, 13 Feb 2009
By Peter Scott-presland "homopromos" (London) - See all my reviews
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One of the minor but still nagging questions of the 1950s is, why Mitzi Gaynor? As an actress she might pass muster in the High School play, she can't dance very much, the voice is - well, not unpleasant, I suppose you might say. She is beautiful in a doll-like way from the front, but this is undermined by her Pinocchio-like profile. But worst of all, she is a charisma-free-zone; not only that, she is a black hole who sucks in the talent of all around her. Think what she does to poor Gene Kelly in "Les Girls"; here she does it to the energetic Donald O'Connor. In this she is almost the epitome of the 1950s, which casts its stifling blanket of "niceness" and good taste over all but the most cantankerous of material. Worst of all, she stopped the part of Nellie Forbush going to Doris Day.

"Anything Goes" is a predictable story of two song-and-dance men double-booking the leading lady (Gaynor and Jeanmaire) and then each going through contortions to avoid sacking the one he falls in love with. A potentially promising plot line of the clash of egos between the Stage Star (Crosby) and the brash new TV star (O'Connor) fizzles out almost immediately.

Crosby, in his last film for Paramount after 25 years, is more energetic than usual, although his presence in two dance numbers emphasises the two left feet. He is way too old to be doing the romancing stuff, an uncomfortable fact overemphasised by the constant references to "Pop".

The two good performers are Zizi Jeanmaire and Donald O'Connor, both of whom have verve, style and talent, but who are dragged down in their duet numbers. They don't really have a decent number together, and O'Connor's solo goes for the "Gene-Kelly-cute-with-kids" schlock rather than letting his considerable talent rip. But at least the director Robert Lewis has the sense to film the numbers in long takes, and keep the whole dancer's body in frame.

Apart from three dispiriting new numbers by Cahn and Van Heusen, the music and most of the lyrics are by Cole Porter. I say "most of", because there is a bizarre attempt to turn the title number into a topical song of the 50s, with references that sound much more dated now than the 1930 original. Or maybe they were scared of Porter's risque wit - "Good authors too who once knew better words/Now only use four-letter words/Writing prose" becomes "now only use THREE-letter words". I'd say Porter's been not so much bowdlerised, as Gaynorised.
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