Damn Yankees
starring: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin
directed by: Stanley Donen, George Abbott
directed by: Stanley Donen, George Abbott
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790790084
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790790084
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 6945
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
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Film adaptation of the george abbott broadway musical about a washington senators fan who makes a pact with the devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Tab Hunter Jean Stapleton Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Abbott/stanley Donen
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America's pastime gets a Faustian twist in this 1958 studio musical, which recounts the ballpark bargain struck by an aging Washington Senators fan obsessed with helping his team trump the Yanks. With echoes of the real-life 1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson scandal, and tart observations on the tradeoffs between youth and experience, Damn Yankees fuses a classic dramatic dilemma with musical comedy to often charming effect.
In transferring George Abbott's Broadway hit to the screen, codirectors Abbott and Stanley Donen are smart enough to retain Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's clever songs, Bob Fosse's sizzling choreography (with Fosse himself on camera for the sultry mambo number), and stars Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon, reprising their devilish turns as the Horned One himself, Mr. Applegate, and his temptress, Lola. Where the team strikes out, unfortunately, is in their concession to marquee politics, handing the pivotal role of Joe Hardy to handsome, vapid, celluloid heartthrob Tab Hunter, whose thin voice and unsteady screen presence argue that he should have stayed in the dugout.
Walston is reliably spry and acerbic as the canny archangel, and Verdon, in one of her rare starring screen turns, confirms the comedic timing and sexy, muscular grace that made her a deserved draw in subsequent stage hits including another Fosse triumph, Sweet Charity. With her combination of feline grace and alternately steely, flirtatious femininity, Verdon makes you believe her when she sings, 'Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets.' --Sam Sutherland
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- One of the greatest musicals ever made ! ! ! ! !I was so ecstatic to see this movie! I'm 50 years old and hadn't seen this classic since I was a kid ... Read More
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- Damn goodAn oldie but goodie, Ray Walston at his best years before Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Gwen Verdon ... Read More
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- damn yankeesIt was excellent. The only problem that I had with it was that it was in wide screen with bars at top ... Read More
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- RUINED!I had seen the movie years ago and it was hugely entertaining. The DVD release, however, is a butchered ... Read More
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- Damn YankeesWhile musicals were never really my forte, I saw this one at the movies when I was a kid and loved it .... ... Read More
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