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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929009886
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 14615
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1947
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Danny has been in the army for four years yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick the janitor of his old High School and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo a talented pianist and his teacher Anne whose dream is to sing opera. When Jamie arrives from England Danny tries to show him the Brooklyn experience and help him compose modern swing music. Together these four also try to help Leo get the Brooklyn Music scholarship.Running Time: 109 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/CLASSICS UPC: 883929009886 Manufacturer No: 1000037043
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The dreamy voice doesn't seem to fit the scrawny young fellow singing-- but this was precisely the early appeal of the young Frank Sinatra. He, and The Voice, are on agreeable display in this low-key MGM musical, with Frankie cast as an ex-GI ecstatic at returning to the greatest place on earth. Where else but Brooklyn? The 1947 movie is on nobody's short list of great MGM efforts, and it feels cobbled together from different projects. Sometimes it's a Jimmy Durante comedy, sometimes it's a showcase for snub-nosed Kathryn Grayson's coloratura (she does bits of Lakmé and Don Giovanni), and toward the end it becomes a fundraiser for a local boy who wants to be a pianist--a bizarre distraction from the romantic triangle of Sinatra, Grayson, and Peter Lawford (whose talent resides in Durante's comment, 'He has a very fine command of the English language'). Best tune: Ol' Blue Eyes crooning the lovely 'Time After Time.' --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - fine MGM musical with a stellar cast
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford star in this very good MGM musical from the golden age of Hollywood musicals. At times the plot meanders a bit too far but the fine musical numbers more than outweigh the slightly less than perfect plot.
The action begins in England when Danny Miller (Frank Sinatra) is just about to leave Europe for America now that WWII is over in Europe. By chance he meets extremely shy Jamie Shellgrove (Peter Lawford) and his grandfather ... Read More
Rating: - Old charming Musical, easy going
My mother being a shut-in and a music fan enjoys watching musicals and I rent or purchased practically every one I can find so she can watch them all. For a modern movie lover this may seem a bit slow and obviously the script is simplistic and like other movies of it's day not as polished as many modern movies. It's almost corny in many spots. But it's easy going, you see the skills of these different stars and there's enough good points to make this a great movie.
My mother actually ... Read More
Rating: - Great film!
This film is great and a must see. Great for all Katheryn Grayson fans It's romantic funny and enjoyable to see each time. I highly recommend it.
Rating:  - Sinatra Sings Mozart?
Indeed he does (La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni) with Kathryn Grayson, and quite gracefully too. This unique duet is worth the price of admission, but in addition you get loveable Jimmy Durante, an icon of vaudeville and early television (where ARE those shows?), and charming Peter Lawford, Kennedy in-law and Rat Packer-to-be! The plot is indeed forgettable, but the highlights make it worthwhile.
Rating:  - Bronx cheer for "Brooklyn"
This is a movie whose time has past. Unlike its contemporary "This Time for Keeps" (also starring Jimmy Durante) this one is stale. It's a relic from the post-WW II years with a script as pedestrian as they get. If you want to see the best this movie has to offer, see "That's Entertainment." The clip there of Durante and Sinatra is all this tired black and white musical has to offer.
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