Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Dec 30, 1949 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.8/5
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Three sailors on a 24-hour pass -- Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra), and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) -- decide to soak up the sights and sounds of New York. Each one finds romance within those 24 hours: Gabey with aspiring dancer Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen), Chip with lady cabbie Hildy Esterhazy (Betty Garrett), and Ozzie with paleontology student Claire Huddesten (Ann Miller). That's all, right? Wellll....Ivy passes herself off as a celebrity, but she's actually a kootch dancer in Coney Island.
Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.
Dec 30, 1949 Wide
May 2, 2000
MGM
All Critics (20) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (1) | DVD (8)
Its aww-shucks charm becomes hard to resist as the three sailors dart around Manhattan, looking for culture, sights, and, of course, 24-hour love.
With Donen and Kelly at the musical helm, it's no surprise that the song-and-dance numbers are top notch.
...a heck of a lot more energetic and tuneful than anything made in the last twenty years. (The Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly Collection)
It's romp, it's a romance, it's a songfest, it's everything that has now become rather passe in a musical comedy.
as fresh as the day it was minted.
A lively and brash musical comedy spectacle.
Disappointingly flat musical; if you're after a Kelly/Sinatra pairing, you'll do better with Anchors Aweigh (and even that is no masterpiece).
Simply wonderful and a time capsule to boot!
Overrrated musical with pleasing moments.
This one and Anchors Aweigh act as perfect companion pieces! But this is definitely more rowdy, more sexually charged, and I must say I do prefer it, if not just for Ann Miller's awesome museum tap dancing.
May 28, 2007Super Reviewer
I have to confess a secrt love for Gene Kelly, the man is a fascinating dancer with a style of his own. This fun 40's musical is typically corny, extremely predictable and the songs (bar one or two) are easily forgettable and yet there is something here that catches this era of musicals in a fun, easy watching way,
April 4, 2007Super Reviewer
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