 | Singin' in the Rain Two-Disc Special Edition
Retail Price: $26.98
Lowest Total Price: $22.97
You Save: $4.01 (15%)
Merchant: Amazon
 More Details Below
Average Review: 
Sales Rank: 791
Actors: Cyd Charisse, Mae Clarke, Harry Cody, Douglas Fowley, Lance Fuller
Director: Donen, Stanley
Rating: 
Features: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
Number of Discs: 2
Running Time: 103 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 1952
Studio: Warner Home Video |
|
All prices are subject to change. Shipping costs are for the most economical method available, and apply only within the United States. In some states, sales tax may be added.
| Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were renowned for a uniquely American and nearly extinct kind of picture known as The Musical. Indeed, when the prestigious British film magazine Sight & Sound conducts its international critics poll in the second year of every decade, this 1952 MGM picture is the American musical that consistently ranks among the 10 best movies ever made. It's not only a great song-and-dance piece starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and a sprightly Debbie Reynolds; it's also an affectionately funny insider spoof about the film industry's uneasy transition from silent pictures to "talkies." Kelly plays debonair star Don Lockwood, whose leading lady Lina Lamont Jean Hagen has a screechy voice hilariously ill-suited to the new technology and her glamorous screen image. Among the musical highlights: O'Connor's knockout "Make 'Em Laugh"; the big "Broadway Melody" production number; and, best of all, that charming little title ditty in which Kelly makes movie magic on a drenched set with nothing but a few puddles, a lamppost, and an umbrella. --Jim Emerson |
|
| |
|
