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VHS : Guys and DollsIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz  List Price: $14.95 Price: $8.88 You Save: $6.07 (41%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780792844761 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0792844769 Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Release Date: April 04, 2000 Running Time: 150 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: November 03, 1955 Sales Rank: 15231 Related Items:
Editorial Review: 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:
 Rating:  - GUYS AND DOLLSI 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! Rating:  - It's not anamorphic....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. Rating:  - Goldwyn's FollyIn 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 Rating:  - Terrible transfer--no better than the previous releaseHaving 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. Rating: - Guys and DollsThis is a true classic. Greta actors, wonderful script, some of the best Broadway music in one show. Another must see for the "musical" enthusiast. Browse for similar items by category:
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