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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543520092
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 20023
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: December 24, 1943
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Her girl-next-door looks combined with a sultry singing voice made Alice Faye one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the Golden Age of Cinema.Eadie Allen (Alice Faye) is a chorus girl who dreams of becoming a star. While working at a New York nightclub she meets Sergeant Andy Mason (James Ellison); they fall in love but he is shipped off to war. As Eadie becomes the headliner at the nightclub Andy comes home a war hero. But complications arise when Eadie finds out Andy is unofficially engaged to another woman. It's up to Eadie's friend and nightclub co-star Dorita (Carmen Miranda) to set things straight. The Gang's All Here is filled with leggy chorus dancers and lavish musical production numbers including Faye's flashy neon finale 'The Polka Dot Polka.'System Requirements:Running Time: 103 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating: NR UPC: 024543520092 Manufacturer No: 2252009
Amazon.com:
Here's one of Hollywood's great excursions into surrealism: The Gang's All Here, the legendarily over-the-top wartime musical. Director Busby Berkeley threw every demented idea that every swirled out of his teeming brain into this madcap affair, and decades later the film was still wowing 'em as a campy jaw-dropper.
The plot is the nonsensical stuff of homefront musicals, with chorus girl Alice Faye waiting for soldier boy James Ellison to return from the war, little knowing he is engaged to another woman. But the real point here is the crazy production design and the flabbergasting numbers--most famously, Carmen Miranda's 'The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat,' which includes a chorus line of women dancing while holding giant bananas over their heads. It might have been dreamed up by Salvador Dali after an acid trip. Alice gets her due with the equally crazy 'Polka-Dot Polka,' and Benny Goodman and his orchestra are also around. So are such reliable second bananas (you should excuse the expression) as Edward Everett Horton and high-kicking Charlotte Greenwood.
The DVD extras include a 20-minute documentary on Berkeley's peculiar art, plus a charming 25-promotional film featuring Alice Faye reminiscing about her old pictures and extolling the virtues of physical fitness (made for the Pfizer drug company while Faye was their spokesperson). A deleted comedy scene and two episodes from the long-running radio show Faye did with husband Phil Harris are also included. The print itself is a source of controversy; the colors lack the 'pop' of the original Technicolor, and the film looks dimmer and vaguer than its original glory. Here's hoping a cleaner, fuller version will emerge. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The gang's not quite all here.
First, be aware that the reviews included may refer to either the 2007 or 2008 DVD releases. I have no complaints about the 2008 release. The colors are vibrant and images very clear. In addition to the feature film, Dr. Drew Casper hosts a commentary version in which he points out technical details of the production making and comments on some of the personnel. "We Still Are" is a brief nostalgic trip by an older Alice Faye, mostly of interest for a few highlight clips of some of her earlier ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't bother with the plot. Fast forward to the bananas and "No Love, No Nothin'"
The only problem with The Gangs All Here is the plot. It keeps getting in the way of the production numbers. Busby Berkeley manages to shoehorn four major numbers in just the first 30 minutes, and he doesn't let up much after that. These numbers include everything Busby Berkeley could think of, from Benny Goodman swinging "Minnie's in the Money" to Alice Faye singing "No Love, No Nothin'" to some bizarre extravaganzas featuring lots of thighs, bananas and Carmen Miranda. You'll want to hit the fast ... Read More
Rating: - new transfer
This is better than the DVD in the Alice Faye box. Definitely a better transfer.
Rating: - The 2008 remastered version is a big improvement
For fans of this movie: yes, the newly remastered edition is much better than the 2007 release. Colors are back to their original super-saturated intensity. If you love this movie, and have the lackluster 2007 version, buy it again, and use the old copy as your "lend it to a friend" copy (which you'll most likely never see again, since everyone I've ever shown this movie to loves it immediately). It's worth the extra $15 or so to have it right this time. Get it.
Rating:  - Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda's presence in a movie is enough to make me want to see it again. Of course I saw all her movies when they first came out (I'm old) but I have several of them in my library, too, and pull them out to watch and remember. This movie, like most musicals, had little plot, and those during WWII were flag wavers mostly, but Miranda made it worth it to me to see it again. To quote Miranda, "I'm happy for me to see her."
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