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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792837633
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Video Transfer, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0792837630
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: January 06, 1998
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 3497
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1951
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
A GI (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an artist, and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man. The plot is mostly an excuse for director Vincente Minnelli to pool his own extraordinary talent with those of choreographer-dancer-actor Kelly and the artists behind the screenplay, art direction, cinematography, and score, creating a rapturous musical not quite like anything else in cinema. The final section of the film comprises a 17-minute dance sequence that took a month to film and is breathtaking. Songs include ''S Wonderful,' 'I Got Rhythm,' and 'Love Is Here to Stay.' --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pardon MGM's French
Thanks to its lengthy ballet finale, visual homage to French painters and Gershwin score, some people (or at least Oscar voters) apparently mistook this for some kind of high art in the early Fifties. Today, it is simply hoity-toity snob torture of the worst kind and damn near unwatchable. Kind of telling that whenever the movie is excerpted in tributes today, the only scene you ever see is a few minutes of that endless dance sequence at the end. Begs the question: If this movie is so great, how ... Read More
Rating:  - Martha Bamattre and Madge Blake are superb!
Martha Bamattre and Madge Blake are superb in this film, and though not as famous as either Gene Kelly or Leslie Caron, are the real reasons for the film's success. Usually the best people in any film are those whose last names are alphabetically at the beginning of the alphabet, and once more that turns out to be true with Bamattre and Blake in this Vincente Minnelli musical which won the Best Picture Oscar. Leslie Caron, whose last name begins with C, comes close to being good in the film; but ... Read More
Rating: - S'Marvelous
I enjoyed the bonuses, but it's the film itself: Beautiful Restoration! I've previously had a vhs tape and then a dvd of this favorite film, and never considered them deficient, but then I watched this version. It is so vivid.
Rating: - Blu Ray available at Amazon.de
FYI. An American in Paris, Gigi and Quo Vadis (1951) were released
in Germany and can be ordered from Amazon.de. PQ is excelent and BD
are region free.
Rating: - Fantastic 50's Musical
An American in Paris is a fantastic musical film from the 50's. I always loved Gene Kelly and while he starred in other great musicals, this film is probably my favirite.
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