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VHS : Thousands CheerIn association with Amazon.com Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301975971 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6301975979 Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Release Date: April 01, 1992 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: 1944-01 Sales Rank: 8849 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: The second half of this 1943 Technicolor musical is an excuse for MGM's contract talent to perform songs and sketches in a big show at an Army base. Unfortunately, more than an hour passes before the show arrives, stranding the viewer with a thin service comedy about an opera singer (Kathryn Grayson) tagging along to a military camp in hopes of reuniting her estranged parents, whose names are Bill and Hillary (no comments, please). Romance comes in the form of private Gene Kelly, a former trapeze artist who misses the glory of his former life. Grayson warbles, and Kelly has one nifty solo dance (with a mop and broom), but the all-star revue is the movie's main attraction. The song selection is generally poor ("I Dug a Ditch in Wichita" is performed twice), with Lena Horne's sultry take on "Honeysuckle Rose" an exception. She's backed by Benny Carter and His Orchestra. Specialty player Virginia O'Brien delights with one of her deadpan numbers, Eleanor Powell tap dances, and Judy Garland delivers with a boogie-woogie lilt on "Jumpin' Down at Carnegie Hall." Comedy sketches with Red Skelton and Frank Morgan are stubbornly unfunny. Then there's José Iturbi, the Spanish-born conductor, making his film debut at the beginning of his run as MGM's supposedly cute highbrow. Director George Sidney would team up two years later with Iturbi, Kelly, and Grayson in Anchors Aweigh, a much more enjoyable musical confection. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Thousands SnoreOf all the Technicolor shows created "for the boys" in WW II, this is the most insipid. Aside from Kelly's mop/broom dance and Lena Horne, this is a real yawner. Rooney (who must be the last survivor) does some memorable impressions, and the latin dance number is fun. The rest is useless plot, third-rate actors, and lifeless productions. If you want to see the gold standard of this genre, try The Gang's All Here. Be sure you look for the 1943 musical, not the 1941 film noir of the same ... Read More Rating: - And I Want Uncle Sam !"Thousands Cheer" is one of those many morale building movie musicals released during World War II. A little plot, a lot of color and everybody on the lot showing up to entertain us. This movie should be on DVD in a "Hollywood Goes To War" set, along with "Hollywood Canteen", "Stage Door Canteen", "Thank Your Lucky Stars","Reveille With Beverly", "Jam Session" and wouldn`t it be nice to have a non-bootleg "This Is The Army" ? Rating:  - Thousands CheerWhy MGM have you not allowed this MOVIE to go onto DVD, don't listen to those that say the first hour is boring, this has to be one of the best musicals of the era if not of all time, I have just about worn out my second video tape of this movie, so please MGM put it on DVD as soon as possible. I am an ardent follower of Kathryn Grayson and coupled with Jose Iturbi is pure magic, I would give this 6 stars if possible, sadly they just don't make movies like this these days. Rating: - DVD DVD DVD !!!!! NOW MGM !!!!We have been patiently waiting since 1992 for this movie to be put out on DVD. Its Time NOW MGM!!! Rating: - I wouldn't miss it; but don't run to see it, either...MGM turns out a middling production with Thousands Cheer. This film has the weakest plot I've seen in years. In fact, the plot is so thin that it becomes difficult for me to write anything cogent about it. Gene Kelly plays Eddie Marsh, an army private during WW2 who falls in love with a Colonel's daughter named Kathryn, played very ably by Kathryn Grayson. Mary Astor plays Kathryn's mother; and John Boles plays Colonel Bill Jones, Kathryn's father; but Kathryn's parents have long since separated. Gene ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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