Pal Joey
by George Sidney
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Actor: Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Rita HayworthDirector: George Sidney
Brand: SINATRA,FRANK
Cinematographer: Harold Lipstein
Editor: Jerome Thoms
Editor: Viola Lawrence
Producer: Fred Kohlmar
Writer: Dorothy Kingsley
Writer: John O'Hara
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Pal Joey
DVD Review: If you love Sinatra, you'll love this!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This has got to be the most fun Sinatra I've ever seen. He is almost insufferable when you first meet him in this movie, but once he starts singing you're hooked!! He develops more and more character as the movie goes on, and I'm a real sap for a happy ending!! Couple that with a really terrific Rogers and Hart musical score, and you are in DVD heaven!! Must have for all TRUE Frank Sinatra fans who love the guy and his music!!DVD Review: Sinatra at his best with Rogers' and Hart's terrific songs
Summary: 5 Stars
"Pal Joey" is a wonderful combination of great music and
Sinatra at the top of his game. The songs in the 50's were
frequently taken from top broadway shows and performed by
the top stars of the day. This is the movie version of one
of the fine shows which spawned many records by wonderful
performers. It is a delight to see Rita Hayworth, although
aging, still exhibiting the dancing skills she began her
professional career at age 14.
DVD Review: Dated but still a blast
Summary: 4 Stars
The recent Broadway revival of Pal Joey is a stark contrast to the film version which drastically overhauled the story and song list, mostly for the better. Frank Sinatra plays Joey as a cad with a heart of gold, who you know will do the right thing in the end. Getting to that point, you have to put up with Frank's 1950-ish hipster persona, which by todays standards produces quite a few cringes in his attitude towards women. Getting past that, the movie has widely added several great Rodgers and Hart songs from their other musicals, including one of Frank's signature numbers, "The Lady is a Tramp." The music alone makes it worthwhile to watch.
The location has been moved to San Francisco, and the location footage is another pleasant change from the play's dreary Chicago setting. The characters have also been altered, becoming less caustic on the one side, as with Joey, and even sweeter on the other side, as with Kim Novak. Having seen the Broadway version, and concluding that the greatest fault of the show was the inability to like the main characters, the changes here work for the best.
I don't know if Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak did their own singing, but since most of the songs are performed by the incomparable Sinatra, you are sure to be humming several of the tunes for days afterwards.
DVD Review: Pal Joey
Summary: 5 Stars
An absolutely terrific Sinatra classic. He is the perfect "Joey". Kim Novak & Rita Hayworth are just beautiful!
Wish the play in NYC had been this good!!!!!!
DVD Review: Pal Joey
Summary: 5 Stars
Pal Joey was filmed in San Francisco and showed off our city nicely. Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak (she is gorgeous)and Rita Hayworth gave outstanding performances to this entertaining musical film. This was Sinatra's crowning achievement, in my opinion.
Description of Pal Joey
Film version of the Rodgers and Hart musical about a cabaret singer who romances a wealthy socialite into financing his own nightclub but then falls for a voluptuous chorus girl.Genre: Musicals
Rating: NR
Release Date: 23-SEP-2003
Media Type: DVD
First born in the pages of The New Yorker, then translated into a hit Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical, the title character of Pal Joey had undergone quite a transformation by the time he hit the movies in 1957. He was a singer, rather than a dancer, but more importantly he'd had his rough edges sweetly softened; the callous heel dreamed up by novelist John O'Hara was more of a naughty scamp in the film version. However, Pal Joey remains delightfully watchable for two very good reasons: a terrific song score and a surplus of glittering star power. Frank Sinatra, at the zenith of his cocky, world-on-a-string popularity, glides through the film with breezy nonchalance, romancing showgirl Kim Novak (Columbia Pictures' new sex symbol) and wealthy widow Rita Hayworth (Columbia Pictures' former sex symbol). The film also benefits from location shooting in San Francisco, caught in the moonlight-and-supper-club glow of the late '50s. Sinatra does beautifully with the Rodgers and Hart classics "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" and "I Could Write a Book," and his performance of "The Lady Is a Tramp" (evocatively shot by director George Sidney) is flat-out genius. Sinatra's ease with hep-cat lingo nearly outdoes Bing Crosby at his best, and included in the DVD is a trailer in which Sinatra instructs the audience in "Joey's Jargon," a collection of hip slang words such as "gasser" and "mouse." If not one of Sinatra's very best movies, Pal Joey is nevertheless a classy vehicle that fits like a glove. --Robert Horton
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