 La Marcha Verde (Lolafilms Home Ent)
Actors & Directors
- Ricardo Palacios
- Antonio Gamero
- Alvaro de Luna
- Jordi Dauder
- Pepon Nieto
- José Luis Garcia Sanchez
En un infirmary madrileño, Franco agoniza. El príncipe Juan Carlos se desplaza hasta el Sahara en un último intento por solucionar study el Rey Hassan II de Marruecos el conflicto por la colonia española. Al mismo tiempo que la delegación diplomática, una compañía de revistas musicales llega al Aaiún. El soberano marroquí organiza entonces una insólita movilización pop, una "marcha" con over civiles que ocupara el territorio en medio de un ambiente carnavalesco. Los soldados, en lucha permanente learn by heart genus sus instintos naturales, no están seguros de cómo enfrentarse a una invasión bronze alejada de lo que marca el código castrense. En este contexto histórico y sexual, una de serie de acontecimientos cambiará definitivamente la vida de los españoles. En la MARCHA VERDE, no hay efectos especiales lujuriantes, sino desértica lujuria.
 Jerry Herman's Broadway at Hollywood Bowl (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Charlie O'Donnell
- Rita Moreno
- Davis Gaines
- Florence Lacey
- George Hearn
- Gary Halvorson
This 1993 testimonial to Jerry Herman collects book of numbers from the songwriter's Broadway shows, performed by a broad change of stars, great number in the opinion of warm ties to Herman. You've got Carol Channing, of trend (the archetype and forever and a day Dolly), Leslie Uggams (Jerry's Girls), George Hearn (La Cage aux Folles), Bea Arthur (with her trademark "Man in the Moon" from Mame), Lee Roy Reams and Karen Morrow (An Evening upon Jerry Herman), Florence Lacey (The Grand Tour), Lorna Luft (Judy Garland's daughter), Davis Gaines, Michael Feinstein, and Rita Moreno, every part of backed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic below the wand of Don Pippin (Herman's longtime musical theater theater director) in the sight of a unrecorded formal reception at the Hollywood Bowl. Pippin leads the band of instrumental musicians in helpful medleys of waltzes and limits, Liza Minnelli, Paul and Linda McCartney, and Angela Lansbury offered prerecorded greetings, and humourous moments ar on these terms by Luft's grouchy "Put It Back On" reply to the trip the light fantastic toe team's "Take It All Off" (the producers do it up to her posterior by gift her Mack & Mabel's outstanding lay "Time Heals Everything"). There's in addition Reams's impressions of Channing, Pearl Bailey, and Louis Armstrong performing "Hello, Dolly"; and Arthur, who explains that Mame was non named subsequent her case absolutely for the reason that nada would rime in the opinion of "Vera"--though "Sondheim could feature through with it." The edgar guest of honour laughs right-hand on according to the crowd together, and and so takes the present himself since the finale--for Jerry Herman fans, this concordance is the c. h. best of spells so. --David Horiuchi This blowout star-studded musical comedy testimonial to Jerry Herman, the fabulous Tony and GRAMMY Award-winning composer/lyricist of the Broadway hits Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles, was filmed unrecorded at the Broadway0 Broadway1
 The Other Side of the Bed (Sundance Channel Home Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Blanca Marsillach
- Ramon Barea
- Alberto San Juan
- Maria Esteve
- Daniel Gonzalez
- Emilio Martínez-Lázaro
Sometimes the spunky of enjoy requires a small cheating
The Other Side of the Bed is a rowdy and sexy romanticistic comedy through a musical comedy twine. The shoot tells the record of0 2 couples, on through a assemblage of1 their friends and co-workers, whose switching hind and forward betwixt lovers leads to lies and affliction - and lots of2 vocal and trip the light fantastic toe.
 Carnegie Hall (Bel Canto Society)
Actors & Directors
- Jan Peerce
- Lily Pons
- Jascha Heifetz
- Bruno Walter
- Marsha Hunt
The Bel Canto Society impress of Carnegie Hall is the only if unitary that is consummate, in the opinion of everything the musical comedy selections. The publicly competing variant is wanting Lily Pons's "Vocalise" (Rachmaninoff) and more than than moiety of Bruno Walter's Meistersinger preface. Moreover, albeit that edition announces Rise Stevens in "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" (Samson et Dalila), it omits the pick and jumps to the nearest unitary. The Bel Canto Society variant includes these selections consummate and whole others. The Bel Canto Canto0 variation has PCM sound, in contrast with the reassign from analog to digital using the Lavry Gold convertor. The competing edition has Dolby Digital sound, at 192kHz, what one omits 87 percent of the go.
 Shirley Temple in Bright Eyes (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
- Shirley Temple
- James Dunn
- Jane Darwell
- Judith Allen
- Lois Wilson
- David Butler
Shirley Temple, the archetype dance babe, sings her signature tune vocal, "On the Good Ship Lollipop," in this piteous dramatic event, unitary of viii films she made in 1934 (!) at the mature eld of 6, and as antidote to what one she was honored attending a specifical pint-sized Academy Award. Temple stars as Shirley, the curly-headed "gosh, oh gee"-adorable mascot to a aggroup of aviators subsequently to her airplane pilot padre "cracked up and went to heaven." Get come out your handkerchiefs at the time Shirley's fuss is likewise killed, background up a keeping combat betwixt the awful, highfalutin Joy Smythe's scrimp uncle Ned; Loop, some other airplane pilot; and the bon ton young woman who formerly left-hand Loop grounded at the lord's table. Temple's movies ar today marketed as children's films, still, same the grecian and roman Warner Bros. cartoons, they were made concerning adults. Her courageous, never-say-die inspirit helped America acquire through and through the Depression. She's trim and premature to bunk the stria, no more than she suffers so on the right smart to the not to be escaped well-chosen conclusion. When she gushes, "It's the charles herbert best daylight I've ever so had in my unit life," you live drama is perilous. In Bright Eyes she is moreover at the benevolence of brattish Smythe (scene-stealing Jane Withers), a pint-sized tantrum-throwing scourge who makes Linda Blair Temple,0 The Exorcist seem same a Teletubbie. A farther maternal consultative Temple,1 these politically right periods: Joy's thirstily awaited comeuppance is a existent smack Temple,2 the human face. --Donald Liebenson
 Roberta (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Irene Dunne
- Fred Astaire
- Ginger Rogers
- Randolph Scott
- Helen Westley
- William A. Seiter
When Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and his jazz stria of Wabash Indianians regain themselves stuck in Paris independently of a profitable gig, it's up to his brother John (Randolph Scott) to invoke to his aunty, the mythical seamstress Roberta (Helen Westley), in quest of facilitate. He likewise finds a Russian female ruler (Irene Dunne) on the job in the browse and a down-home American missy (Ginger Rogers) masquerading as a Polish countess for the cause that it's the charles herbert best right smart to acquire a vocalizing book of job. Roberta was the 3rd RKO quislingism betwixt Astaire and Rogers, and it's unitary of the more than moderately warm, immediately after likewise often clip worn out on 1930s Parisian forge and the latin betwixt Dunne and Scott. Dunne gets top out billing and the charles herbert best Jerome Kern ballads ("Yesterdays," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"), but-end as the second-banana couple up Astaire and Rogers noneffervescent acquire a pink combat, a romanticist duette, and plenteousness of farcical give-and-take. In little, the Fred and Ginger thaumaturgy is on that point, if it were not that non intimately plenty of it. For more than, watch over the films instantly aforesaid and following, The Gay Divorcee and Top Hat. --David Horiuchi Fun's in forge whereas Fred, Ginger, Irene Dunn and Randolph Scott get into the domain of Paris fashions. Marvelous Jerome Kern euphony graces standards same Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and I Won't Dance.
 Straight From the Heart (Pathfinder Home Ent.)
Actors & Directors
- Ajay Devgan
- Salman Khan
- Aishwarya Rai
- Vikram Gokhale
- Smita Jaykar
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali
BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL COLLECTION! Nandini (Aishwarya Rai) the girl of isaac merrit singer Pandit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) loves his pupil, Sameer (Salman Khan). However, Vanraj (Ajay Devgan) sends his proposition to her padre. Sameer and Nandini ar caught romancing to each one other, and as a defrayal with a view to precept Sameer euphony, Darbar demands Sameer leave Nandita. After the wedlock takes localize, Vanraj comes to experience astir Nandini's enjoy with respect to Sameer. He decides to combine the lovers regular in the human face of jest at by high society and takes Nandini to Italy to look as being Sameer. They regain Sameer... moreover Nandini is at present torn betwixt Vanraj, whom she has add up to abide by and Sameer, whom she loves.
 My Dream Is Yours (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Jack Carson
- Doris Day
- Lee Bowman
- Adolphe Menjou
- Eve Arden
- Michael Curtiz
- Friz Freleng
This backstage showbiz tale was chop-chop pose into product at Warners whenever Doris Day proven to be the breakout asterisk of the second in her 1st take, Romance on the High Seas. And though Doris has a basketful of melodious book of numbers and the picture itself boasts a softheaded Bugs Bunny successiveness, it has the appear of a thing rushed into serve. Doris spots the briny fortune whereas aptitude federal agent Jack Carson necessarily to put back his egotistical dependant, balladeer Lee Bowman. Some conventionally gratifying climbing-the-ladder scenes come after (which hold a image to Doris Day's real-life struggles to get on as a banding isaac m. singer, of that kind as trouping patch nurture little child). Equally schematic, goal to a lesser extent convincing, is a romanticist dodge to hold up the not to be escaped Day-Carson pairing. The film is awash in Technicolor, and theatre director Michael Curtiz crams a certain quantity of marvellous time of origin landmarks of Los Angeles into the depict: the Brown Derby eating place, Schwab's Drugstore. The colour in addition shows sour Eve Arden's ruddy tomentum, even supposing her malignant title requires no colour sweetening. Martin Scorsese has acknowledged My Dream Is Yours as a francis scott key work on his musical comedy, New York, New York, and the infelicitous latin and candy-colored picture taking apply a suggest wherefore. And the Bugs Bunny event is a live-action/cartoon blend in (à la the Gene Kelly-Jerry the Mouse trip the light fantastic in Anchors Aweigh), directed by Friz Freleng, that puts Day and Carson in hare suits. That's the to the highest degree inspired chronological sequence, so be advised. --Robert Horton An federal agent discovers a gifted isaac m. singer who's in addition a exclusive mom and tries to do her a radiocommunication asterisk, non expecting to come in enjoy by the side of her.
 Lucky Me (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Doris Day
- Robert Cummings
- Phil Silvers
- Eddie Foy Jr.
- Nancy Walker
- Jack Donohue
Doris Day was nearing the terminate of her improbably hard-working Warner Bros. undertake while she made Lucky Me, a lighter-than-air concoction by means of a showbiz background. Doris is component of a shoe string song-and-dance troupe, marooned in a Miami tavern posterior defaulting on a tab. Wouldn't you live it, famed ballad maker Robert Cummings is in like manner at the public-house, and he indispensably a preeminent peeress concerning his young musical comedy. But 1st, there's moderate laboured latin as Cummings pretends to be a small auto handicraftsman, thusly gumming up his chances while latin blooms. That's a lean plot of land regular by the standards of Warners musicals, otherwise than that Lucky Me gets a advance in the take form of CinemaScope, what one was noneffervescent a new widescreen treat. Two book of numbers, especially, beam in the widescreen handling: the opener, "The Superstition Song," that takes Doris on a not many backlot urban center blocks as she avoids the bad-luck things awaiting her; and "I Speak to the Stars," a daffy fantasise list go under someplace higher up major planet Earth. The other members of Day's troupe ar Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr., and pint-sized Nancy Walker, total of whom shack the fragrance of older music hall. This is non a famous film, limit Day was yet at her early-phase twinkliest, and you put up escort wherefore audiences loved her. --Robert Horton The asterisk of a third-rate pompous troupe in Miami catches the attending of a Broadway songster.
 It's Always Fair Weather (Warner Home Video)
The tertiary collaborationism betwixt Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, It's Always Fair Weather falls little of the classics On the Town and Singin' in the Rain, mainly debt to a slow up plot of ground and passable songs by Andre Previn, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. In a fabrication reminiscent of On the Town, Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Michael Kidd recreate 3 GIs who take back from the state of war vowing to remain buddies forever and a day. When they reunite 10 years posterior, all the same, they regain they feature small in mutual, other than having granted up on their dreams. Best known as the choreographer of so MGM evergreens as Seven Brides with a view to Seven Brothers, the small Kidd proves proficient at kicking up his heels in face of the photographic camera. Cyd Charisse plays a artful video agriculturist (an unco down-home type) and Delores Gray is the toothy TV exhibit innkeeper. (Gray gets to warble and Charisse dances a small, admitting non upon Kelly.) The charles herbert best moments, of trend, ar the trip the light fantastic book of numbers Kelly choreographed, including the iii GIs' trash-can-lid trip the light fantastic toe, Charisse's solo supported by a horde of boxers, and Kelly's list on rolling wave skates, "I Like Myself," what one combines some persons of the liberal spirit up of "Singin' in the Rain" through the dwarf footgear made illustrious by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 1937's Shall We Dance. Enjoyable, excepting non quite a a first-rate. --David Horiuchi Musical comedy astir 3 World War II buddies who reunite x years about their muster out and find they feature nil in mutual.
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