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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: HT
EAN: 9780792844846
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079284484X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 11382
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: March 09, 1967
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Description:
Big business means big laughs as Robert Morse schemes and scams his way to the top in this bold andbawdy musical that celebrates the Great American Corporate Wayand lampoons it at the same time. With musical supervision by the legendary Nelson Riddle (Pal Joey), this tune-filled comic gem is a goldmine of great Frank Loesser (Guys and Dolls) songs, including 'I Believe In You,' 'Rosemary' and 'The Company Way.' Written, produced and directed by David Swift (The Parent Trap) and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit, this classic musical is 'bristling with humor, romance and song' (The Hollywood Reporter)! The story charts the meteoric riseof an ambitious window washer (Morse) who, with the help of a simple guidebook, gets the job, gets the girl (Michele Lee), gets the raise and gets the attention of the Big Boss (Rudy Vallee) himselfall by his second day at work! Now it's only a matter of hours before he goes from zero to CEO!
Amazon.com:
This fizzy musical was a Broadway smash in 1962, and boy, is it a product of its era. Executive washrooms, gray-flannel-suit businessmen, hip-swinging secretaries--they're all preserved in the movie's brightly colored amber. J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) is the window washer who climbs the corporate ladder in a few days, guided by a how-to book. The Frank Loesser songs are great fun, the Bob Fosse dances are very clever and mod, and the gaudy set design may have given Andy Warhol a few ideas. The jack-in-the-box performance of the elfin Robert Morse doesn't seem toned down from his Tony-winning stage turn; think Mickey Rooney doing Jerry Lewis. Still, Morse is a unique presence, and his mad little solo dance down a real Manhattan street is an interlude of sublime daffiness. Grand old crooner Rudy Vallee shines as the president of Worldwide Wicket, barking his beloved alma mater's fight song: 'Groundhog! Groundhog!' --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Brotherhood of Man
The slightly racy logo from the opening titles of this film, used on both the record and Broadway playbills, may not suggest a family film, but it in no way reflects the content of this excellent, G rated movie, which remains one of the great little-seen musical adaptions of all time. The film's title refers to a self-help book that J. Peerpont Finch continually refers to in his bid to climb the corporate ladder (The initials, "J.P. (Julius Peerpont) may seem familiar, as they were also the moniker of TV clown J.P. Patches, played by Daryl Laub and Chris Wedes in Minneapolis and Seattle). Leonard Maltin gave this movie three and a half stars, and Robert Osborne notes that in the film version, the character of Finch was made more loveable. So forget there was ever a play, and settle in for a great movie experience.
If you're a fan of the four color Technicolor look of '60s movies, as I am, or of the exciting visual look of Panavision, a then new technique so amazing as to lure audiences back to the theaters and away from the small screen, you're in for a treat. As for the cast, Robert Morse as Finch is a ball of fire. Bob Fosse's choreography is not over the top as with many memorable musicals, and provides for interludes without intruding. The songs by Frank Loesser are also somewhat muted from the usual musical fireworks, although the climactic number, "The Brotherhood of Man", infuses the '50s "Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" doldrums with a sense of camaraderie and lifts it to the level ... Read More
Rating: - Succeed in Business
Good characters....very enjoyable movie. This is the way they used to make movies in Hollywood....and still should!
Rating: - show
one of my favorite shows and actor,maine saw original on broad way years ago --- neato!! DR.K MAINE
Rating:  - No Coffee Break
Eliminating "Coffee Break" (and its choreography) was a huge disappointment within what I otherwise thought was quite good and peppy for a film version.
Rating: - Mayron57
A superb movie and superb DVD transfer. I was so pleased to be able to pick up the original. I believe this film was remade a few years ago, in which case you can normally never again get the superior original version. Very pleased to get this. If you have a sense of humour, you will love this film!
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