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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543520092
Feature: Her girl-next-door looks combined with a sultry singing voice made Alice Faye one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the Golden Age of Cinema. Eadie Allen (Alice Faye) is a chorus girl who dreams of becoming a star. While working at a New York nightclub, she meets Sergeant Andy Mason (James Ellison); they fall in love but he is shipped off to war. As Eadie becomes the headliner at the nightclu
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2252009
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1943
Features:- Her girl-next-door looks combined with a sultry singing voice made Alice Faye one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the Golden Age of Cinema. Eadie Allen (Alice Faye) is a chorus girl who dreams of becoming a star. While working at a New York nightclub, she meets Sergeant Andy Mason (James Ellison); they fall in love but he is shipped off to war. As Eadie becomes the headliner at the nightclu
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Her girl-next-door looks combined with a sultry singing voice made Alice Faye one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the Golden Age of Cinema.Eadie Allen (Alice Faye) is a chorus girl who dreams of becoming a star. While working at a New York nightclub she meets Sergeant Andy Mason (James Ellison); they fall in love but he is shipped off to war. As Eadie becomes the headliner at the nightclub Andy comes home a war hero. But complications arise when Eadie finds out Andy is unofficially engaged to another woman. It's up to Eadie's friend and nightclub co-star Dorita (Carmen Miranda) to set things straight. The Gang's All Here is filled with leggy chorus dancers and lavish musical production numbers including Faye's flashy neon finale "The Polka Dot Polka."System Requirements:Running Time: 103 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating: NR UPC: 024543520092 Manufacturer No: 2252009
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Here's one of Hollywood's great excursions into surrealism: The Gang's All Here, the legendarily over-the-top wartime musical. Director Busby Berkeley threw every demented idea that every swirled out of his teeming brain into this madcap affair, and decades later the film was still wowing 'em as a campy jaw-dropper.
The plot is the nonsensical stuff of homefront musicals, with chorus girl Alice Faye waiting for soldier boy James Ellison to return from the war, little knowing he is engaged to another woman. But the real point here is the crazy production design and the flabbergasting numbers--most famously, Carmen Miranda's "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat," which includes a chorus line of women dancing while holding giant bananas over their heads. It might have been dreamed up by Salvador Dali after an acid trip. Alice gets her due with the equally crazy "Polka-Dot Polka," and Benny Goodman and his orchestra are also around. So are such reliable second bananas (you should excuse the expression) as Edward Everett Horton and high-kicking Charlotte Greenwood.
The DVD extras include a 20-minute documentary on Berkeley's peculiar art, plus a charming 25-promotional film featuring Alice Faye reminiscing about her old pictures and extolling the virtues of physical fitness (made for the Pfizer drug company while Faye was their spokesperson). A deleted comedy scene and two episodes from the long-running radio show Faye did with husband Phil Harris are also included. The print itself is a source of controversy; the colors lack the "pop" of the original Technicolor, and the film looks dimmer and vaguer than its original glory. Here's hoping a cleaner, fuller version will emerge. --Robert Horton
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Rating:  -
THE GANG'S ALL HERE was the peak of Fox's splashy series of musicals. Don't look for sophisticated plots or intellectual performances, just sit back and revel in the musical numbers and costumes, all soaked in lush Technicolor.
New York showgirl Edie Allen (Alice Faye) is swept off her feet by a soldier, Andy Mason (James Ellison) who's quickly called back to the front. When he returns home, his father (Eugene Pallette) and Long Island neighbors (Edward Everett Horton and Charlotte ... Read More
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Busby Berkley meets Carmen Miranda.
This is the last film directed by Busby Berkley, and to him, it is all about the musical numbers. With a large budget, directorial freedom and techicolor, this is his most indulgent, most surreal, over the top film yet. Giant bananas, neon hoops, and the disembodied heads of the stars singing are all part of this film. Alice Faye and Benny Goodman
have a few good songs, but the most memorable part of the movie for me is "The Lady in the Tutti ... Read More
Rating:  -
This movie is really just a vehicle for Busby Berkeley's expressionist film making and Carnem Miranda's exuberant physicality. The movie as whole has a surreal quality, with nominally realistic scenes morphing seamlessly into psychadelic displays of waving fruit, detached body parts, and human kaleidoscopes in which hundreds of women are used as living design elements as Victorians constructed pictures from hundreds of butterfly wings. Even in the "realistic" scenes, consistency of color and costume ... Read More
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This 1943 colour film is in my mind memorable for many things,the least of which is this being Berkeley's last film in which he had the free hand to create that which was lacking for a few years previously and for those remaining years therafter.
As with his later Warner years and his ensuing MGM years his talent would be saddled with studio control and tight budgets.This loan out to 20th Century Fox and a reuniting with Darryl Zanuck proved to be a God send for him and film history.He was given ... Read More
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The plot is silly. Really, really silly and trite.
However, this pointless fluff was put into the hands of the one-of-a-kind Busby Berkeley. He added swarms of dancing show girls gracefully groaning under the weight of giant bananas and the always amazing Alice Faye singing as only she can.
The recurring theme of large fruit comes back again when Carmen Miranda dances with an enormously huge Tutti Fruitti Hat -- an image that has lived on for generations on stage, screen, cartoons ... Read More
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