Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

(U)

Starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel, this musical showcase of spectacular love songs and dazzling dance numbers garnered a 1954 Academy Award for Best Score (Musical) and received four additional nominations including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Featuring such memorable tunes as "Bless Yore Beautiful Hide" and "Goin' Co'tin," Seven Brides For Seven Brothers is "an unending source of enjoyment - the best in every way," --Los Angeles Times!

When rugged frontiersman Adam (Keel) sweeps local beauty, Milly (Powell), off her feet, the whole town is turned upside-down. But no one's more shocked than Milly, who discovers that she's now expected to cook and clean not only for Adam but for his six rowdy brothers too! Well, Milly's no pushover, and soon she has those boisterous boys whipped into "groomhood" and dancing for joy over six brides of their own!

Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Marc Platt, Matt Mattox, Jacues d'Amboise, Julie Newmar, Nancy Kilgas.

This may be an old movie, but you never grow out of it. I loved it when I was younger and still love it now. This is a great movie for the young and the old.

South Pacific

(U)

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary (Juanita Hall) is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC (John Kerr). While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) and Emile de Becque (Rossano Brazzi) becomes serious drama.

Ray Walston, France Nuyen, Russ Brown, Floyd Simmons, Tom Laughlin, Jack Mullaney, Ken Clark, Archie Savage, Candace Lee, Warren Hsieh, Francis Kahele.

Watched this when I was younger and this was a really great movie. Thought the story line was good, not to sure about the music though, as I'm not really into musicals. Not to keen on the ending but all in all a good movie!!!

Fiddler On The Roof

(U)

An outstanding accomplishment in every way, this lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Tsarist Russia. Nominated eight Academy Awards (1971), including Best Picture and Best Director and featuring such classic songs as "If I were a rich man", "Matchmaker" and "Sunrise, Sunset", Fiddler on the Roof is a universal story of hope, love and acceptance - a musical masterpiece.

Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, Neva Small, Paul Michael Glaser, Ray Lovelock.

Fiddler on the Roof is an all-time classic movie, this is excellent movie for all those who love musicals. The movie offers a view of the historical past of a Jewish village in Russia and a look at Jewish traditions and love in that context. I would recommend this to all who love musicals!!!

West Side Story

(PG)

Garnering a total of ten Academy Awards - including Best Picture of 1961 - West Side Story set a brilliant standard for movie musicals that remains unsurpassed to this day. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from Ernest Lehman's spectacular screenplay, the film combines the unforgettable score of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim with Robbins' exuberant choreography to create a transcendent fusion of realism and fantasy that will forever be a feast for the eye, the ear, and ultimately, the heart. A triumph on every level, this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in the slums of 1950's New York.

Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, Ned Glass, William Bramley, Tucker Smith, Tony Mordente, David Winters, Eliot Feld.

I remember watch this when I was younger with my mum & dad and thought it was fantastic. West Side Story was made in the early sixties and set in the fifties, its not like other musicals, it has a powerful story of love and prejudice! west Side Story is a definite watch for all musical lovers and anyone who enjoys a bit of camp fun!

The King and I

(U)

This visual and musical masterpiece features Yul Brynner's Academy Award winning performance, an unforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein score and brilliant choreography by Jerome Robbins.
It tells the true story of an English woman, Anna Leonowens, who comes to Siam as schoolteacher to the royal court in the 1860s. Though she soon finds herself at odds with the stubborn monarch (Brynner), over time Anna (Deborah Kerr) and the King stop trying to change each other and begin to understand one another.

Winner of six Academy Awards, The King And I contains some of the most lavish sets in Hollywood and some of the world's best-loved songs, including ´Getting To Know You´, ´I Whistle A Happy Tune´, ´Hello, Young Lovers´ and ´Shall We Dance?´

Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Terry Saunders, Rex Thompson, Carlos Rivas, Patrick Adiarte, Alan Mowbray, Geoffrey Toone.

Excellent. I really loved this when I was growing up, this is of my childhood favourite, my daughter still loves this version of it today.This is really a great story, with great music. Everyone of all ages will love this!!!

Annie

(U)

In the depths of the 1930's, Annie (Aileen Quinn) is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan (Carol Burnett). Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks (Albert Finney). Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl. He decides to help Annie find her long lost parents by offering a reward if they would come to him and prove their identity. However, Miss Hannigan, her evil brother, Rooster (Tim Curry), and a female accomplice, plan to impersonate those people to get the reward for themselves which put Annie in great danger.

Ann Reinking, Bernadette Peters, Geoffrey Holder, Roger Minami, Toni Ann Gisondi, Rosanne Sorrentino, Lara Berk, April Lerman, Robin Ignico, Lucie Stewart, Edward Herrmann.

Really loved this movie when I was growing up, watched this every time it was on TV. Then I bought this on DVD for my daughter and she loves it. I still watched it from time to time. One of my childhood favourites!!!

My Fair Lady

(U)

By George, they've got it! Newly transferred from elements painstakingly restored in 1994, the film version of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady is lavish, lovely and the acclaimed recipient of eight 1964 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (George Cukor).

Best Actor Oscar winner Rex Harrison reprises his signature stage role of Henry Higgins, the supremely assured phoeneticist who wagers that under his tutelage, cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle can pass for a duchess at the embassy ball. In one of her best-loved roles. Audrey Hepburn plays Eliza. If ever there was a face the professor could grow accustomed to, it's hers. In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire (and elsewhere) no one's fairer than My Fair lady, one of the most irresistible musicals ever.

Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom, John Holland.

The whole cast acted and sang well in this movie, I'm not into musicals so I thought this was a bit corny and stupid. If your into musicals then you'll loved, I'm glad I watched it, but I'd never watch it again.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

(U)

In the early 20th century England, eccentric Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) works as an inventor, a job which barely supports himself, his equally eccentric father, and his two adolescent children, Jeremy (Adrian Hall) and Jemima (Heather Ripley). But they're all happy. When the children beg their father to buy for them their favorite plaything - a broken down jalopy of a car sitting at a local junk yard - Caractacus does whatever he can to make some money to buy it. One scheme to raise money involves the unexpected assistance of a pretty and wealthy young woman they have just met named Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), the daughter of a candy factory owner. But Caractacus eventually comes into another one time only windfall of money, enough to buy the car. Using his inventing skills, Caractacus transforms the piece of junk into a beautiful working machine, which they name Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because of the noise the engine makes. At a seaside picnic with his children and Truly, Caractacus spins a fanciful tale of an eccentric inventor, his pretty girlfriend who is the daughter of a candy factory owner, his two children, and a magical car named Chitty all in the faraway land of Vulgaria. The ruthless Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe), the ruler of Vulgaria, will do whatever he can to get his hands on the magical car. But because of Baroness Bomburst's (Anne Quayle) disdain for them, what are outlawed in Vulgaria are children, including the unsuspecting children of a foreign inventor of a magical car.

Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Barbara Windsor.

This movie is a great family movie. It is one that the whole family can enjoy. It is really imaginative and makes you want to sing along, a great story. If you have yet seen it, I recommend do a great family movie!!!

Guys and Dolls

(U)

Based on the Broadway show from the Damon Runyon short story and filled to the brim with Frank Loesser tunes such as "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," this outrageously comic film featuring Marlon Brando's bold musical debut is a colorful tale about gamblers, a feisty Salvation Army lass, and a dance-hall girl with a pining heart.

Veteran gambler Sky Masterson (Brando) takes a bet from Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) that he can win the affection of a "soldier" (Jean Simmons) in the Salvation Army, setting himself up to lose both his money and his heart. Romance is the last thing the gambler and the missionary expect, and they fight against their attraction for all they're worth in glowing singing and dancing numbers.

Love proves to be contagious as spicy dancer Miss Adelaide, in a role re-created for the screen from Broadway by showstopper Vivian Blaine, is determined to get her fiance, Nathan, to the altar one way or another. Stubby Kaye and B.S. Pully also reprise their stage roles in this glorious Cinemascope film that earned four Academy Award nominations. GUYS AND DOLLS consistently ranks among the most popular film musicals of all time.

I'm not always one for musicals. This really is Marlon Brando at his best and the story, whilst not the most complicated, has enough structure and theme to make this much more than just a set of good songs strung together. This is a great classic!!

Xanadu

(PG)

The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. One of them, incarnated as a girl named Kira, encounters an artist named Sonny Malone. With the help of Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), a man Kira (Olivia Newton-John) had inspired forty years earlier, Sonny (Michael Beck) builds a huge disco roller rink.



Only watched this a couple of nights ago for the first time, I thought it was quite good as far as musicals go. It is great for all those who love musicals.

The Sound of Music

(U)

In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria (Julie Andrews) is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun.When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischevious children,Maria is given the job.The Captain's wife is dead,and he is often away,and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children (Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath) are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring,and have managed to run each of them off one by one.When Maria arrives,she is initially met with the same hostility,but her kindness,understanding,and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives--including the Captain's.Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love,even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness (Eleanor Parker) and Maria is still a postulant.The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made.Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed,however,by world events.Austria is about to come under the control of Germany,and the Captain may soon find himself drafted into the German navy and forced to fight against his own country.

Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Ben Wright.

I remember seeing and enjoying Sound of Music in the late 70's. Now my children have seen it on TV and they love it as well. A excellent movie if you haven't yet seen it.

Cinderella

(U)

In this Rogers & Hammerstein musical version of the classical fairy tale, where only the genetic miscasting surpasses the implausibility of most colors and sets, a royal heir is as bored with court life as fascinated with commoners lives, but his mother commands another grand ball in his name- he only concedes to attend if another lack of acceptable marital candidates wins him the right to switch to a selection process of his choice. However Cinderella (Brandy Norwood), a black stepdaughter (de facto maid) gets to attend till midnight by the magic of her fairy godmother (Whitney Houston), and unlike her hideous stepsisters is the only one to captures his heart, so when she rushes off he orders every young woman in the kingdom should fit her left behind glass slipper...

Whoopi Goldberg, Bernadette Peter, Veanne Cox, Natalie Desselle, Paolo Montalban, Jason Alexander, Victor Garber.

The music is great as well as the dancing and acting!! It maybe cheesy but I wouldn't expect anything else from Disney! Ive watched this movie a few times with my daughter! Fantastic childrens movie!! Great old Disney works its magic again!

Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit

(PG)

The sisters come back to Delores's (Whoopi Goldberg) show to get her back as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of students in their parochial school which is doomed for closure. One of the girls, who is the most talented of the bunch, is forbidden to sing by her mother, although the choir has made it to the state championship. A group of stereotypical incompetent monks tries to stop them.

Kathy Najimy, Barnard Hughes, Mary Wickes, Michael Jeter, Wendy Makkena, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Thomas Gottschalk.

I thought that Sister act 2 is very very good! and them kids really love this, I quite like it 2 if so hilarious! Whoopi Goldberg is a great actress and think she is really funny!!!!!

Sister Act

(PG)

Sister Act is about a Reno lounge singer named Deloris Van Carter (Whoopie Goldberg) who witnesses her mobster boyfriend killing an employer. She is then hidden in a convent under a witness protection program. She soon makes friends with the nuns especially Sister Mary Robert, Sister Mary Lazuras (Mary Wickes) and Sister Mary Patrick (Kathy Najimy). After the Mother Superior (Maggie Smith)catches Deloris going out to a bar in the night time followed by Mary Robert and Mary Patrick she orders her to join the church choir. Only to find her coaching the choir and turning them into swingin' singin' sisters. The choir proves to be a big success with the surrounding neighborhood, but will Deloris' boyfriend track her down...

Wendy Makkena, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn, Robert Miranda, Richard Portnow, Ellen Albertini Dow, Carmen Zapata, Pat Crawford Brown, Prudence Wright Holmes, Georgia Creighton, Susan Johnson-Kehn.

Sister Act is one of those movies that you never get tired of and is great all round family fun!! It makes Christmas much more easy, when the kids, can enjoy this family classic!! I've lost count of the number of times I've seen it, yet the jokes and story line can never grow old.

Wee Willie Winkie

(U)

Ford certainly got the best out of Shirley by teaming her up with Victor McLaglen. Its full of action and sentiment and pure Ford, foreshadowing his later U.S.Cavalry trilogy.

Use to love this movies when I was growing up.

Stand Up and Cheer

(U)

In an effort to rid America of the "depression blues," the United States Secretary of Amusement stages a mammoth review. Contains the grand production number "Baby Take a Bow."

The Blue Bird

(U)

Mytyl (Shirley Temple) and her brother Tyltyl (Johnny Russell), a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.

Dimples

(U)

Temple stars as a young singer who entertains the New York crowds, providing the window of opportunity for her pick pocket of a grand father to carry out his work. A rich lady sees the young girl performing - and after discovering her grim existence with her grand father - offers her an opportunity to rise out of lifestyle...

The Littlest Rebel

(U)

Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. However a yankee takes pity upon him and sets up an escape; unfortunately for all concerned the escape is foiled and all the captured officers are sentenced to execution. Enter Shirley and "Bojangles" Robinson, to beg President Lincoln to intercede.

The Little Colonel

(U)

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.