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Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Cancan
EAN: 0024543438830
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Restored, Subtitled, Surround Sound, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 141 minutes
Sales Rank: 20803
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 09, 1960
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Description:
A 1890's Montmartre Dance Hall Owner Constantly Raided For Performing The Illegal Can-Can Has To Use Her Own Resources When An Elderly Judge Is Replaced By A Younger More Serious One. Based On Abe Burrow'S Play. Music By Cole Porter.
Amazon.com:
How to adapt a Broadway musical for the movies? Well, if you've got Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine signed up, you throw out most of the original and make up something new--which is how Cole Porter's Can-Can came to the screen. It had been a smash on Broadway, and on film Can-Can locked up the #2 box-office spot for 1960 (nestled between Ben-Hur and Psycho). From a modern standpoint, the movie's popularity can be attributed to the stars, the colorful widescreen production, the sexy subject matter, and of course the Porter songs. It can't really be explained any other way, because Can-Can isn't among the most engaging movie musicals; it has the stolid, proscenium-framed look of Fox's 1950s widescreen musicals, and the story is only mildly diverting. The saturated color makes 19th-century Montmarte come to life, and the can-can numbers (and the wonderfully daft Garden of Eden ballet) look appropriately splashy. For a bit of authentic Gallic je ne sais quoi, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan are imported from Gigi, a big hit two years earlier. MacLaine and Sinatra have their cozy chemistry ('Let's Do It' fares especially well with them), and the movie marks the film debut of the dimply dancer Juliet Prowse.
The DVD provides a gorgeous color presentation of the movie. A second disc has some OK featurettes, including a making-of documentary that includes the famous story of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the set of Can-Can, at which he witnessed an ooh-la-la can-can number, after which he denounced the proceedings as an example of Western depravity. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - "I love Paris every moment, every moment of the year."
CAN-CAN is a well-realized picture but to me it falls just a leeedle short of a 5 rating. I'd give it four-and-a-half if I could.
STRENGTHS: Beautiful color, which manages to be flamboyant and engaging both. Intriguing fantasy sequence (presented as the music-hall's take on Adam and Eve), some terrific ballet dances from Juliet Prowse and Shirley McLaine; in fact all the dancers were great. The colorful can-can scenes are an important part of the film and use widescreen to great effect. Wonderful Cole Porter songs, most of them previously written but a delight nonetheless.
WEAKNESSES: A little long -- it was shown in theaters as a "road show" including Overture, Intermission and leaving-the-theater music, all of which made it to the DVD. The Todd-AO widescreen process (ratio 2.2:1) shows a bit of distortion around the edge and the DVD-makers had to "cheat" on the letterbox a little in the Adam-and-Eve ballet scene or else the title characters would be way too small on the home screen. Movie is a little stage-bound and "set-bound" and apparently lacks location shots from Paris, not even the second-unit types.
If your reaction to this film is at all positive, if you enjoyed it at all, I would recommend you rent/buy 1958's Academy Award winner GIGI, which was made a year prior to CAN-CAN. Similar setting in "la belle epoque," with two of the principals in very similar mentor/protegee roles (Maurice Chevalier plays man-about-town Honore Lachaille and ... Read More
Rating:  - Great old time musicals
It's great to relive the great musicals and films that kids, as well as adults, can see. Besides, what is better than a Sinatra musical?
Rating: - It's the Right Time
A generally fun flick. The highlight is Sinatra singing to Juliet Prowse. "It's Alright with Me" is a beautiful Porter song sung with pure Sinatra soul.
Rating: - An almost perfect package
This is a gorgeous release - color, sound, 70mm transfer - Fox really went all out on this DVD. BUT: does anyone know if they're going to fix the problem of the Entr'acte missing its last 10 seconds? Also - with all of the extras this package includes it sure would have been nice to finally hear why the "I Love Paris" duet between Sinatra and Chevalier was cut as it was definitely filmed.
Rating: - Only for Sinatra Lovers!
A total waste of time an money for this DVD. It doesn't even have the Can-Can song in it! Save your money on this one and watch your TV for an hour with it turned off.
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