Capo
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Post by Capo on Aug 4, 2007 23:23:34 GMT
On the Town Gene Kelly / Stanley Donen 1949 UK Three sailors dock in New York for 24-hours, and fall in love. The opening sets up these three sailors in such exuberant fashion you can't help (even if you wanted to resist, and why would you?) but fall in love with the colours, sets, songs and dance routines which this dazzling musical beats out. The sailors' imaginings of Miss Turnstiles, early on, before having even met her, with a yellow background and Vera-Ellen dancing as the woman of anybody's dreams, is fantastic. In fact, the women steal the show here.
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Sept 16, 2007 22:40:30 GMT
Looking back at "On The Town", I can't help but rave about the film. It's one of the perfect examples of the studio system at its best and worst. It's happy and joyus and a pleasure to watch but goddamn Louis B. Mayer and his mangling of the original stage classic. He cut two of the greatest songs of the decade that came from the oringal 1945 production, "Some Other Time" and "Lonely Town". Then again, the Bernstein, Comden and Green score is one of the greatest in Broadway history.
Still, the film itself is a great way to spend an hour and forty minutes.
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