Streaming Pal Joey Online
Mardi, septembre 14th, 2010 |
Streaming Pal Joey Online.
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This film is worth watching over and over again, if only to see Sinatra’s rendition of “The Lady is a Tramp”, which he sings with riveting style and musical finesse.
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Based on a book and play by John O’Hara, it boasts some snappy dialogue and a fabulous Rodgers and Hart score, with songs like “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, “I Could Write a Book”, “What do I Care for a Dame ?”, “Plant You Now, Dig You Later”, “Happy Hunting Horn” and “That Terrific Rainbow”. Rita Hayworth does a sumptuous “Zip” (I love the way she uses her lavish Jean Louis gown in the number), and Kim Novak is absolutely stunning singing “My Funny Valentine”. Novak was one of the loveliest and most underrated stars to ever grace the silver screen, and this was her second film with Sinatra, having done the dramatic “The Man with the Golden Arm” two years earlier.
The film only received some Oscar nominations (Art/Set Direction, Costume Design, Editing, Sound), but Sinatra did pick up a 1958 Golden Globe Best Actor/Musical-Comedy for his part as Joey, the womanizing, fast talking, con-man singer, who goes from town to town, leaving debts and broken hearts behind; Sinatra makes the most of the part, and one cannot imagine anyone else that could have played Joey to such perfection.
Terrific direction by George Sidney and choreography by Hermes Pan complement this trio of great stars and splendid music, with the backdrop of San Francisco and Harold Lipstein’s cinematography.
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Total running time is 109 minutes.
I’ve been trying to catch up on my old musicals lately. It’s a genre I didn’t quite grow up with and have always been a little ambivalent about. Never could get a handle of those “walking down the street and bursting into song” musicals. But PAL JOEY is not of that particular mold. Most of the songs are “natural,” in the sense that Joey is a nightclub singer. Rita Hayworth’s number, “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” is the only number that doesn’t take place in a club setting, but then again people in love have been known to sing to themselves in their boudoirs, so that’s OK too.
Most of the reviews for this film stress the fact that the original Broadway play was considerably darker, and the main character much more of a louse than the cheeky nice guy Sinatra plays here. Given the era (the late 50s), this is hardly surprising, and it’s easy to guess how the edgier theatrical version actually played, even if you don’t know the “book.”
Sinatra is fine as the cheerful heel Joey. Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak are lovely and sexy as rivals for Joey’s affections. Character actors like Barbara Nichols and Hank Henry milk their smallish roles for all they’re worth. Director George Sidney was a veteran of several classic musicals, including SHOW BOAT, TIL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY and THE HARVEY GIRLS, so he’s on familiar turf here, and it shows.
The Rodgers and Hart score is great, but the numbers are not as many as you might hope. Still there’s “My Funny Valentine,” the aforementioned “Bewitched…,” and, the highlight, Sinatra’s definitive take “The Lady Is a Tramp.” Well, worth 111 minutes of your time.
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