On the Town
by Gene Kelly
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Actor: Ann Miller, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jules Munshin, Vera-EllenDirector: Gene Kelly
Primary Contributor: Frank Sinatra
Primary Contributor: Gene Kelly
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of On the Town
DVD Review: one of the greatest movie musicals ever...
Summary: 5 Stars
The 1st 10 minutes of this movie with the song "A Wonderful Town" and the sailors exploring NYC is worth the entire DVD!!! But lots of fun with great dancing throughout...one of my fave MGM musicals!!!DVD Review: Dancing and singing galore
Summary: 5 Stars
On the Town is funny, lovely and filled with music and dance. My grandchildren and I watch it on sleepovers.DVD Review: Sailors, singers, dancers
Summary: 4 Stars
I have seen this on tv enough to know I would enjoy it. It is an old-fashioned musical, and I love the music and dancing.DVD Review: Breakthrough
Summary: 5 Stars
"On the Town" was truly a breakthrough movie which revolutionised the movie musical. From that wonderful opening with the harbour man walking to work on the real New York docks, singing in his bass voice his chant against early rising, you know you are in for something special. And it really does not date, partly because of the top level performances from both the leads and the supporting players. Who for example could ever forget Alice Pearce's cameo of Lucy Schmeiler. And of course it was perhaps the first time that we became aware of Gene Kelly's fabulous dancing and choreography, so wonderfully partnered by Vera Ellen. It is perhaps the first time that a movie musical really was "a movie" creation and not an adaption of a theatrical form, even though the inspiration was Jerome Robin's ballet "Fancy Free". "On the Town" was followed by two more Gene Kelly works which have become classics of their genre "An American in Paris" and "Singing in the Rain".DVD Review: Classic musical
Summary: 5 Stars
Classic musical from Hollywood's Golden Age. Have watched it repeatedly and can't stop humming the songs.
Description of On the Town
New York, New York--it's a helluva town; the Bronx is up and the Battery's down; the people ride in a hole in the ground.... Well, you get the idea. Those lyrics (by Betty Comden and Adolph Green), set to Leonard Bernstein's music, have made On the Town a permanent part of the psychological landscape of New York City. The story (inspired by Jerome Robbins's ballet Fancy Free) is pretty slight: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin play sailors with 24 hours' leave to take their bite out of the Big Apple. When they meet, and then lose, this month's Miss Turnstiles (Vera-Ellen), they scour the town in search of her, bumping into a lady anthropologist (Ann Miller) along the way. Shot mostly in the studio, but with location exteriors all over town, from Coney Island to the Statue of Liberty to Central Park, this 1949 gem was the first of three great musicals codirected by Kelly and Stanley Donen, followed by Singin' in the Rain (1952) and the underrated It's Always Fair Weather (1955). --Jim EmersonGeneral DVDs
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