Cheaper By the Dozen
by Walter Lang
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Actor: Betty Lynn, Clifton Webb, Edgar Buchanan, Jeanne Crain, Myrna LoyDirector: Walter Lang
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-Video, 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: 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.DVD Review: 10 minutes
Summary: 1 Stars
I have just seen a little theater production of Cheaper by the Dozen and was looking foreward to watching the original movie version. The DVD was fine until the last 10 minutes whenit was unwatchable. Poorly reproduced and a dissapointment. DVD Review: more families
Summary: 1 Stars
Our favorite family of 12 is back, more comedic adventure and misadventure. Tom Baker (played by the very funny Steve Martin) decides to take his family on vacation in the wilderness. This maybe the last time the whole Baker family take a vacation together, because of two of his daughters are moving away. One is pregnant and expecting soon, and the other just graduated from high school and leaving to go to college in Chiciago. But these things are going to become the least of his worries when his rival Jimmy Mertaugh who is a billionaire seems to think he is better than Tom at everything. Then this starts a funny competition that will have you laughing out of your seat. Steve Martin was ten times funnier in this one than the first one. This was also better than the first one.
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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