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Guys & Dolls
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Product Details
- Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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- EAN: 9786303878263
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6303878261
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- Label: Hallmark
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- Manufacturer: Hallmark
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Hallmark
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- Release Date: 1997-01-28
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- Studio: Hallmark
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1955-11-03
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- Title: Guys & Dolls
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- UPC: 707729400301
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: 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
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Customer Reviews
Terrible transfer--no better than the previous release
Having 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.
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Guys and Dolls
This is a true classic. Greta actors, wonderful script, some of the best Broadway music in one show. Another must see for the "musical" enthusiast.
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Guys & Dolls DVD
This is a classic musical! Sinatra and Brando are fantastic.
DVD was brand new, still in wrapping, and was shipped quickly.
Thank you!!
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BEGUILING !
This is the big, beautiful musical with the perfect casting. I didn't know that legendary Brando could do such wonderful performance in a movie such as this one--he really was a cinematic genius. Sinatra,equally talented, was not to be outstaged--he was hilarious! And the dolls--Simmons and Blaine--were brilliant acting partners; the rest of the crew were simply oustanding. Highly recommended!
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A CLASSIC
WHAT BAD CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THIS MOVIE? IT IS AS I SAY A CLASSIC. I LOVE THE MUSIC AND THE WHOLE STORY.
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