Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0071419251420
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Digital Disc Entertainment
Manufacturer: Digital Disc Entertainment
Publisher: Digital Disc Entertainment
Release Date: June 01, 1999
Sales Rank: 231080
Studio: Digital Disc Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 12, 1952
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Rating:  - Good Deal, Great price
This was exactly what I was looking for. In this day of anime violence and off-color innuendo in kid's programming, I have been picking up DVDs of entertainment from my own childhood to share with my grandchildren...and they love it!!! They even go around singing the songs from the movie, corny as they are.
Rating:  - You NEED to know Jack!
Having not seen Abbott and Costello's "Jack and the Beanstalk" in several decades, I have to say that is so much more than I remember. It is really just inspired in it's, to borrow a style from the Sherman Brothers, "Awfulosity". This film is really a turkey, but a golden one, (or however gold photographs in the miracle of SUPERcineCOLOR?).
Clearly this film was influenced by the MGM film "The Wizard of Oz", which incidentally was re-issued for the first time in 1950 or 51. This film was released in 1952. You get the picture. The opening and closing sequences, in the real world, are shot in sepia (though in this print it looks like grainy, contrasty B&W). All the principle characters in the color "fantasy" sequence are introduced in the modern day world and telegraph their relationships in the fantasy later on, some going as far as showing the costumes they will be wearing minutes later.
Really, the costumes, the make up (on the cow, Henry), the hair (particularly on Bud and the prince), the songs, the choreography, EVERYthing in this picture is just so wrong it's right. Lou's shtick and acting are really so far beneath him, except in a really funny dance that he and the scullery maid do in which he gets the stuffing smacked out of him. My favorite numbers, however, include the solos with the strange looking, slightly cock-eyed prince and the "big" dance numbers with the innane lip-syncing townsfolk and the "June Terrible Dancers!"
And the "Giant", well, you ... Read More
Rating:  - ONE OF THE TEAM'S BEST FILMS
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (1953)
Warner Bros.
Release Date: April 7, 1952 (New York City, New York)
April 12, 1952
Runtime: 70 min./USA: 82 min. (restored version)
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Producer:
Pat Costello
Writing Credits:
Pat Costello
Nathaniel Curtis
Cast:
Bud Abbott....Mr. Dinkel/Mr. Dinkelpuss
Lou Costello....Jack/Jack Strong
Buddy Baer....Sgt. Riley/The Giant
Dorothy Ford....Polly
Barbara Brown....Mrs. Strong
David Stollery....Donald
William Farnum....The King
Shaye Cogan....Eloise/Princess Eloise
James Alexander....Arthur/Prince Arthur
Music by:
Lester Lee
Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography by:
George Robinson
Film Editing by:
Otho Lovering
Other Crew:
Milt Bronson....dialogue director
Johnny Conrad....choreographer
Albert Deano....wardrobe supervisor
Clarence Eurist....production supervisor
Helen Holm....assistant to executive producer
Wilton R. Holm.....color consultant
Raoul Kraushaar....music supervisior ... Read More
Rating: - cute
What can I say about these movies abbott and costello made in the 50's. They did a cute job on this fairy tale story. Always good to see again and again.
Rating:  - Not much annoying A&C schtick, but not much to redeem it either... not even the kids would watch it.
I bought this expecting (based on reviews) something more...
Granted, the usual irritating mannerisms weren't plentiful - but there was still plenty of, "Why, you..." and fist shaking.
This movie most notably lacked a good script. It took some good ideas (the Jack story is embedded in a modern-day tale of babysitting for a bratty little kid, some potentially charming embellishments on the fairy tale itself), but the writing (this thing must have been churned out in a week or two) didn't do anything with them. The songwriting and choreography are similarly uninspired.
The other thing that wasn't there was quality acting/directing (for example, the giant spends most of his time standing around looking threatening).
My sons (4 and 5) are big movie fans, and will sit and watch almost anything - they lost interest in this within a few minutes. I made the mistake of continuing to watch, waiting for something good to happen. It never did.
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