Thousands Cheer [VHS]
by George Sidney
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Actor: Ben Blue, Gene Kelly, John Boles, Kathryn Grayson, Mary AstorDirector: George Sidney
Cinematographer: George J. Folsey
Editor: George Boemler
Producer: Joe Pasternak
Writer: Paul Jarrico
Writer: Richard Collins
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 125 minutes
Release Date: 1992-04-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Movie Reviews of Thousands Cheer [VHS]
Movie Review: The Sound Of One Hand Clapping
Summary: 2 Stars
What a cynical exercise on the part of MGM!!! This alleged wartime morale booster is only worth marking time. This clumsy grafting of service romance and all-star review accomplishes nothing but a sense of ennui. For sure there are some high points i.e. Kathryn Grayson's angelic pipes and Gene Kelly's hoofing but otherwise I would just pass this one by. Do yourself a favor and watch "Yankee Doodle Dandy" if you want to get into the war bond buying state of mind.
Summary of Thousands Cheer [VHS]
The second half of this 1943 Technicolor musical is an excuse for MGM's contract talent to perform songs and sketches in a big show at an Army base. Unfortunately, more than an hour passes before the show arrives, stranding the viewer with a thin service comedy about an opera singer (Kathryn Grayson) tagging along to a military camp in hopes of reuniting her estranged parents, whose names are Bill and Hillary (no comments, please). Romance comes in the form of private Gene Kelly, a former trapeze artist who misses the glory of his former life. Grayson warbles, and Kelly has one nifty solo dance (with a mop and broom), but the all-star revue is the movie's main attraction. The song selection is generally poor ("I Dug a Ditch in Wichita" is performed twice), with Lena Horne's sultry take on "Honeysuckle Rose" an exception. She's backed by Benny Carter and His Orchestra. Specialty player Virginia O'Brien delights with one of her deadpan numbers, Eleanor Powell tap dances, and Judy Garland delivers with a boogie-woogie lilt on "Jumpin' Down at Carnegie Hall." Comedy sketches with Red Skelton and Frank Morgan are stubbornly unfunny. Then there's Jos? Iturbi, the Spanish-born conductor, making his film debut at the beginning of his run as MGM's supposedly cute highbrow. Director George Sidney would team up two years later with Iturbi, Kelly, and Grayson in Anchors Aweigh, a much more enjoyable musical confection. --Robert HortonComedy VHS Video
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