Harvey Girls (1946) (Full Screen) (Sous-titres français) [Import]
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Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form--except on one point. No viewer will question why "On the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe" won the best song Oscar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this wowser--even Marjorie Main sings, an eardrum-testing sound. The real-life Harvey Girls were waitresses imported to the far-flung Fred Harvey Hotels, civilizing oases along the railroad lines out west. The fictional Harvey Girls is set in Sandrock, where the traveling waitresses are joined by a sort of mail-order bride (Judy Garland) whose prospective husband is a bust--he's a roughhewn rancher played by Chill Wills. Garland is in fine spunky form; unfortunately, her romance is with John Hodiak (as the owner of a dance hall), that uninspiring World War II-era lead. The film's other great Johnny Mercer-Harry Warren song is the unexpectedly melancholy "It's a Great Big World, " performed in a lovely trio by Garland, Virginia O'Brien, and the young Cyd Charisse. The tall, deadpan O'Brien also does a comic take on "The Wild, Wild West" while shoeing a horse. With kewpie-faced Angela Lansbury as a bespangled dance-hall gal and Ray Bolger high-stepping through a dance solo, there are enough good people on board to keep the wheels a-turning "all the way to Californ-eye-yay. " --Robert Horton Binding DVD. Publisher(s): Warner Home Video. Label: Warner Home Video. AudienceRating: NR (Not Rated). Format: Closed-captioned. AspectRatio: 1.33:1.
| Manufacturer: | Warner Home Video |
| Part Number: | 43190-661539 |
| Lowest Price (CAD): | $49.96 |
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| Brand : | Warner Home Video |
| Director : | George Sidney |
| Movie Aspect Ratio : | Full Screen |
| Starring : | Ben Carter |
| Title : | Title F-I |
