Sergeants 3
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Actor: Dennis Crosby, Dorothy Abbott, Joey Bishop, Lindsay Crosby, Madge BlakeBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Winton Hoch
Composer: Billy May
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: United Artists
DVD Reviews of Sergeants 3
DVD Review: The rat pack at its best
Summary: 5 Stars
The Sergeants 3 is a remake of the Cary Grant classic of Gunga Din. It is the rat pack at its best in this hilarious western comedy. It is definitely worth buying and seeing over and over again . DVD Review: An old movie to enjoy again
Summary: 5 Stars
I had forgotten about this 1962 movie until I saw it had been released on DVD so I decided to buy it for fun. The picture and sound quality were very good and the enjoyment level I had was super. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop were perfect for their roles. If you like old movies in lovely settings, then this movie has all the elements for good entertainment, without social/political messages, explosions, sex, and profanity. An audio commentary of the movie with Frank Sinatra, Jr. contains interesting tidbits during the filming about the actors and locations for the splendid cinematography. Not many movies made today are filmed on location as this one was, which is another reason why I think it is a gem.DVD Review: Sergeants 3, Audience 0
Summary: 1 Stars
If you thought "Ocean's 11" was a glorified home movie, wait until you see the Rat Pack's lazy Western remake of "Gunga Din." Some impressive Southern Utah scenery and Dean Martin's occasional asides cannot salvage this Frank Sinatra vanity production. Transporting Rudyard Kipling to the Old West proved a big mistake - made even worse by sloppy stunt work, cheesy exterior sets, and one of the lamest endings in cinema history. With Ol' Blue Eyes calling the shots, director John Sturges had little control over the amateurish hijinks. There's a reason why "Sergeants 3" never warranted a home-video release until 2008: It's a terrible film.DVD Review: Rat Pack out West . . .
Summary: 3 Stars
Oceans Eleven was the first film to feature the infamous `Rat Pack', Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Sergeants 3 is the second and last, to feature these five. The western starts out quite well, but later fizzles into rather mundane silliness. Still, this is mostly a fun and entertaining time, with some Hollywood legends.
Sergeants Merry (Sinatra), Deal (Martin), and Barrett (Lawford), are assigned to lead a group of soldiers on a mission to find out what happened at the town of Medicine Bend, where it is suspected that Indians may have attacked. Bishop is also a soldier, while Sammy Davis is Jonah Williams, an entertainer who tags along with the group.
Soon after their arrival in town, a furious battle with the Indians ensues. The action highlight of director John Sturges's film is quite well-done, punctuated with plenty of explosions, and executed with much gusto and mirth. The attackers, known as the `Ghost Dancers', are driven back into the hills. What happened to the town's inhabitants is not made clear.
Against orders, Deal heads into the mountains to find the Ghost Dancers' lair. Together with Williams, the pair discover the Indians' secret hideout, a cave high in the mountains. Merry leads an improbable rescue mission, where a handful of soldiers hold off a vastly superior force. Bodies keep flying off cliffs, and Williams saves the day by escaping to sound a decisive warning. It all doesn't make much sense, but with no casualties among the Rat Packers, things end better than could be expected.
Mostly an action-adventure, with some comic moments, Sergeants 3 is more to be enjoyed for the distinguished cast, one big battle, and some quality cinematography. It's worth seeing to catch the Rat Pack in action, and a good-natured Dino playing for laughs.
DVD Review: Must see Rat Pack fun!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay, is this movie perfect?? Not by a long shot...and the sets look like something out of a ride at Disneyland. But on a rainy afternoon, my husband and I laughed our heads off!! I had seen this movie when I was 12 and still remembered half the lines. This is any Rat Pack fan's must see!!!
Description of Sergeants 3
Mike Chip and Larry are three lusty brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870. Mike and Chip are determined to prevent Larry from carrying out his decision to leave the Army at the end of his current hitch and marry beautiful Amelia Parent. One night the three cronies befriend a trumpet-playing former slave Jonah Williams who dreams of someday becoming a trooper. A tribe of fanatical Indians begins terrorizing the area and the headstrong Chip decides to attempt the capture of their leader. Accompanied by Jonah he sneaks into the Indians' secret meeting place while they are conducting one of their mysterious rites but he is discovered and taken prisoner. Jonah however escapes and races back to tell Mike and Larry. When Larry insists upon going to Chip's rescue Mike makes him sign a reenlistment paper "just to make his help official" and promises to destroy the paper after the mission. Mike Larry and Jonah make their way to the Indian stronghold but they too end up as prisoners. As the Cavalry rides into a trap where a thousand warriors are waiting to ambush them Jonah blows the regiment's favorite tune on his trumpet as a warning. The ensuing battle ends in victory for the Cavalry; the three sergeants are decorated and Jonah is made a trooper. Thinking himself discharged Larry drives off in a buggy with Amelia but the crafty Mike shows the post's commanding officer the reenlistment paper he had promised to destroy. Larry it appears will be forced to serve another hitch with Mike and Chip.System Requirements:Running Time: 112 minutes Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN/CLASSICS Rating:?UNRATED UPC:?883904108047 Manufacturer No:?M110804Lurking inside this 1962 Rat Pack movie is a true film classic: 1939's buoyant Kipling adventure, Gunga Din. The plotline's about the same, but the action in Sergeants 3 is transferred from colonial India to the Old West. Our three roistering Army buddies are played by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Peter Lawford, who are assigned a tense scouting mission just about the time Lawford is ready to quit the service in favor of--horrors--marriage. Sammy Davis, Jr., assumes the Gunga Din role, as a freed slave who tags along after the sergeants in hopes of joining the Army. (Yes, he blows a bugle.) Less successfully transferred than this outline is the way the cult from Gunga Din becomes a bloodthirsty tribe of Ghost Dancers in Sergeants Three, a bit of fudged movie history that will have to be taken with a grain of salt. But it's about as believable as everything else in this movie, right down to the fake beards on the cowpokes in the opening saloon brawl. Director John Sturges, who made this movie between his commercial high points of The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, apparently had little interest in making the interiors look like anything but studio sets. The exteriors fare much better, as many were shot in Utah's Bryce Canyon. The actors look as disengaged from this material as Sturges, with oomph sneaking in only when the boys are teasing each other (notably a sequence in which stuffy officer Joey Bishop--yes, he's in here too--is tricked into swallowing a laxative). It's all pretty flat, lending credence to the idea that the movie's long delay in securing a DVD release had less to do with racial insensitivity than with sheer lameness. --Robert Horton
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