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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391188247
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Running Time: 376 minutes
Sales Rank: 4129
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008
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Rating:  - great movies
Finally "Thank your lucky star" and "Hollywood canteen" are on DVD.
I already had a VHS but this is the final set.
It's wonderful to see Hollywood in the past, Hollywood unfortunately
forever lost. This is Hollywood as we remember. I hardly wait Nov 11
Rating:  - HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN and THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS are wonderfull memories for ME.
REVIEW OF THE FORTHCOMING WARNER BROTHERS RELEASES = NOVEMBER 11th 2008
HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN and THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS.
Starring JOAN LESLIE.
The good news from my favourite Hollywood movie studios: appeared on my web site this morning: WARNER BROTHERS are releasing Three of their finest War time productions onto DVD.
HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN made in 1944 was a superb moral boosting film made to cheer up both the troops serving in far away places, and also as a reassuring movie for the families at home that people in the film industries cared for their fellow countrymen worldwide in these dark days of World War 2.
I remember this film when it was first released: and queueing up for a few hours to get into see it my city cinema.
This escapism has remained in my mind for over 60 years... and I have rated it as my ultimate all time favourite film, and its followed by THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS which by coincidence is my second all time favourite.
The plot synopsis is very well engineered in its premise, and the two leading players in the movie Joan Leslie and Robert Hutton perform this short four day story admirably.
It beguines in the Pacific War torn theatre of operations, were a group
Of soldiers are watching an open air movie at night during a lull in bombing raids from Japanese Aircraft..... And they just happen to be watching a Hollywood ... Read More
Rating: - Why not Thousands Cheer too?
Since Warners Bros. has the MGM package now why not put Thousands Cheer (1943) in this collection. This was MGM's wartime patriotic entry with most of their stars in it (Judy, Mickey, Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell) with a slim plot with Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson as the stars.
Rating: - Good set of musicals from the WWII era
These are three musical comedies from the WWII era. It's been some time since I've seen "This is the Army". I've seen the other two pretty recently. I intersperse the press releases with my own remarks.
This is the Army (1942)
Press release:
Irving Berlin showed his abiding love for his adopted country with, among other cultural accomplishments, decades of Broadway hits, the unofficial national anthem "God Bless America" and the World War II spirit-lifter This Is the Army. On stage it featured 350 real-life GIs, giving their singing-and- dancing all to raise nearly $2 million (then an astronomical sum) for Army Emergency Relief.
My remarks:
Irving Berlin actually sings in this one - and not too well. According to one story, after Berlin sang "Oh How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning", one stagehand was overheard saying to another, "If the guy who wrote that could've heard how this guy just sang that song, he'd roll over in his grave." I got this story from someone over at imdb, but I can believe it happened. Great music, but a rather weak storyline. However, you have to remember at this point it was early in the war and the outcome was yet unknown. With everything on the line, people needed this kind of escapist entertainment.
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Press Release:
Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, and Dinah Shore come out to play in the joyous World War II-era Thank Your Lucky Stars. A breezy, behind-the-Hollywood-scenes story ... Read More
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