Guys and Dolls starring Marlon
Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank
Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith
Guys And Dolls
Joseph Mankiewiczs brightly stylized film of Frank Loessers 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. Its 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 Runyons
breezy stories) the song performances arent 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,
Youre 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 Kidds high-energy choreography gives the
film a memorable and enchanting character. --Sean Axmaker
Features:
* Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and
Vivian Blaine (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank
Loesser (How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying)
masterpiece, unleashing a "spectacular, song-and-dance show thats
loaded with entertainment" (New York Journal-American). Featuring hits
like "Luck Be A Lady" and "A Woman in Love," this smash fil
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