Cheaper By the Dozen
by Walter Lang
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Actor: Betty Lynn, Clifton Webb, Edgar Buchanan, Jeanne Crain, Myrna LoyDirector: Walter Lang
Brand: TCFHE
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Editor: J. Watson Webb Jr.
Producer: Lamar Trotti
Writer: Lamar Trotti
Writer: Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Writer: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Cheaper By the Dozen
DVD Review: Cheaper By the Dozen - Oldie and a Goodie
Summary: 5 Stars
I had almost given up on finding a copy of this movie from my childhood. Now I am reading the book. I love this movie. Now that I am raising my grandson, maybe I can get some tips from this movie too! LOL. If you are into old movies and nostalgia and a true life story, this is a good movie. Even my husband likes it and he's mostly into Action "Shoot them up Movies", etc. This movie is one the whole family can watch.DVD Review: A Wonderful Classic!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the original 1950's classic version which includes traditional values and less destructive antics than the 2003 remake. It's fun to watch a man obsessed with efficiency and time patriarch a growing family that eventually totals 14. Also cracked me up to watch all of them pile into a car - a feat impossible today using proper car seats! The family meetings were a wonderful look into the diplomacy of a family. It was a bit sad that while family values were upheld, the end of the movie was a disappointing conversation between the narrating daughter and her recently deceased father. She tells him she knows he watching them from "wherever you are". Overall, good family fun.DVD Review: Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Just like I remember the movie. It is the older version but nice to see some of the older non violent movies.DVD Review: Wrong movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought I made a mistake but now I see it was yours. I received the modern version of Cheaper By the Dozen not the original one. Can you rectify that? Thanks.DVD Review: cheaper by the dozen
Summary: 5 Stars
A delightful true story of the Gilbreath family. And how zany and crazy life can be in a family with 12 children.
Description of Cheaper By the Dozen
This colorful depiction of life in a family of 12 children stars Clifton Webb as Frank Bunker Gilbreth, an eccentric father who prides himself on some truly unorthodox child-rearing methods. Based on the bestseller by two children of the real Mr. Gilbreth, this charming film co-starring Myrna Loy is "alive with big laughs" (Los Angeles Times).Narrated by the oldest daughter (Jeanne Crain), the story follows a series of family crises over the years: from how the children over-whelmed their new school's administration office, to the time they threw a hospital into chaos when they arrived for a mass tonsillectomy. There's even a memorable encounter with a birth control advocate. Simultaneously hilarious and sentimental, "Cheaper by the Dozen is a family comedy in the truest sense.
Though it's impossible to gauge just how much of it is true, this endearing family comedy (based on the book by their children Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey) is inspired by the true story of the husband-and-wife efficiency experts Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and their adventures raising 12 kids at the turn of the century. Director Walter Lang takes a loping pace through the episodes of family life: the kids descend upon the new school in force while Dad (fussy Clifton Webb) offers his unsolicited views on education; Dad takes his oldest daughter (wholesome Jeanne Crain) to the school dance and becomes the hit of the ball; a mass tonsillectomy becomes an opportunity to document the ordeal as an experiment in efficiency. Myrna Loy almost steals the film in her one standout scene, holding back a smirk while a birth-control advocate (played by Mildred Natwick) solicits this mother of 12 to speak at a rally, but her martini-dry comic deadpan is criminally underused in this picture, which is dominated by Webb's stern, military-like parenting and Crain's adolescent crises. Though this sometimes overly sentimental classic never builds to any real dramatic plateau or comic highlights, it maintains an even tone of good humor and warmth throughout, capturing a bygone era through the travails of a loving family. A charming sequel, Belles on Their Toes, followed two years later. --Sean Axmaker
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