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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391188247
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD027308D
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Running Time: 376 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008
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"War is pretty grim business," an officer states in This is the Army, one of three (literally) star-spangled World War II-era musicals included in this rousing set. "Sometimes a song or a smile is just as vital to an army as food." It was also essential to those on the homefront, and Warner Bros. obliged with these proudly patriotic extravaganzas in which the studios' A-list talents sing, dance, poke fun at themselves, and most important, offer their heartfelt support of the soldiers fighting overseas. Boy, as the ads for That's Entertainment once proclaimed, do we need it now. "Wherever you go, our hearts go with you," Bette Davis movingly states at the end of Hollywood Canteen (1944), a salute to the famed club she co-founded where soldiers mingle with the movies' best and brightest, who entertain and serve as the wait staff. Robert Hutton stars as a wide-eyed soldier with a mad crush on Joan Leslie. At the club, a "Reaganized" Jane Wyman shows him the ropes, Barbara Stanwyck serves him food, and Paul Henreid dispenses romantic advice to his lovelorn buddy, while onstage the likes of Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, Roy Rogers and Trigger, and others perform. Cantor gets the good sport medal for Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), in which he portrays himself as an egomaniacal ham as well as an aspiring entertainer whose resemblance to the real Cantor has stymied his career. The heart of the film is a benefit show. If you've always wanted to see Bette Davis or Errol Flynn sing and dance, then "That's What You Jolly Well Get" (just one of the showstopping numbers). Great comic character actors abound, including Edward Everett Horton and chubby cheeked S.Z. Sakall, who, in one cute bit, intimidates tough guy Humphrey Bogart. Michael Curtiz's This is the Army, the top-grossing film of 1942, is a class act all the way, with an Oscar-winning score and great Irving Berlin tunes, including Kate Smith's defining performance of "God Bless America" (Berlin himself makes a rare screen appearance to sing, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"). George Murphy and Ronald Reagan front the cast as father and son soldiers, who, in World Wars I and II, respectively, mount morale-building stage shows. Each disc replicates an old fashioned night at the movies, complete with coming attraction, newsreel, vintage short subjects, and classic cartoons. The This is the Army disc contains a 45-min. documentary about Warner Bros.' war effort narrated by Steven Spielberg, and delightful, all-too-brief commentary by Joan Leslie, who is in all three films (the bulk of the detailed and incisive commentary is by U.S.C. professor Dr. Drew Casper). Whether as tribute to "the Greatest Generation" or as nostalgia for vintage movie buffs, this collection is a (Yankee doodle) dandy! --Donald Liebenson
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It was great in all ways. Great movie, great price, great delivery, great a garbo....no I'm kidding. Greta Garbo wasn't in any of the movies. That was a downpoint for me. But even with the lack of the Garbo, this colllection was one "L" too many. Buy with confidence from this seller for he /she is the best. You pay for it and it comes. What more could you ask for? I'm going to bed now. Night night.
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I was previously familiar with the three films featured in the "Warner Bros. and the Homefront Collection". My reason for the purchase was to add a high quality DVD set that represented the Warners studio contract players during the height of the studio system. " Thank your Lucky Stars" {particularly Bette Davis singing her wartime lament, "They're Either too Young or too Old") and "Hollywood Canteen" were beautifully transferred to the DVD format. "This is the Army", the only movie in color, was a great disappointment. The picture was lacking in detail and the color was too brightly saturated and inaccurate. Surely, Warners can do better.
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Amazon have provided an excellent and precise review of this collection but here are a few additional comments:
- "Thank Your Lucky Stars" is a very funny film. If you like Eddie Cantor, then you will love the film. There are some really excellent acts. Ann Sheridan is sensational singing "Love isn't Born, It's Made", Bette Davis "sells" "They're Either too Young or Too Old" making up for her lack of vocal ability with a dry wit, Jack Carson and Alan Hale do a very entertaining vaudeville routine and the invaluable Ruth Donnelly is hilarious as a psychiatric nurse. Joan Leslie is a charming heroine and does a very clever imitation of Ida Lupino. Watch out too for Alexis Smith's dancing. A trained dancer who was never given a chance in a musical, Smith is terrific and had to wait another 30 years before she could strut her stuff on Broadway in "Follies".
- At the the other end of the scale, "Hollywood Canteen", as Miss Leslie states in the commentary for "This is the ... Read More
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Finally "Thank your lucky star" and "Hollywood canteen" are on DVD.
I already had a VHS but this is the final set.
It's wonderful to see Hollywood in the past, Hollywood unfortunately
forever lost. This is Hollywood as we remember. I hardly wait Nov 11
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REVIEW OF THE FORTHCOMING WARNER BROTHERS RELEASES = NOVEMBER 11th 2008
HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN and THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS.
Starring JOAN LESLIE.
The good news from my favourite Hollywood movie studios: appeared on my web site this morning: WARNER BROTHERS are releasing Three of their finest War time productions onto DVD.
HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN made in 1944 was a superb moral boosting film made to cheer up both the troops serving in far away places, and also as a reassuring movie for the families at home that people in the film industries cared for their fellow countrymen worldwide in these dark days of World War 2.
I remember this film when it was first released: and queueing up for a few hours to get into see it my city cinema.
This escapism has remained in my mind for over 60 years... and I have rated it as my ultimate all time favourite film, and ... Read More
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