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The Unsinkable Molly Brown

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The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

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Reviews Counted:7

Fresh:5

Rotten:2

Average Rating:5.1/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Synopsis: A backwoods girl goes from rags to riches in this splashy musical comedy based on a true story. Molly Brown, an orphan raised in the Colorado wilderness, becomes a millionairess when her husband... A backwoods girl goes from rags to riches in this splashy musical comedy based on a true story. Molly Brown, an orphan raised in the Colorado wilderness, becomes a millionairess when her husband strikes it rich during the silver boom of the 1880s. After rising to the heights of Denver society and nearly going down with the Titanic, Molly emerges as true heroine, singing and dancing all the way. [More]

Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Ed Begley, Harve Presnell, Jack Kruschen

Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Ed Begley, Harve Presnell, Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley, Vassili Lambrinos, Harvey Lembeck, George Mitchell

Director: Charles Walters

Director: Charles Walters
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten
Screenwriter: Helen Deutsch
Story: Meredith Willson, Richard Morris
Composer: Meredith Willson

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Debbie Reynolds received her only Oscar nomination for playing the title role of this artistically mediocre but commercially popular musical comedy about the rags to riches of the Denver heroine who was also a passenger on the Titanic.

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Geoff Andrew
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Razzle-dazzle biopic kept afloat by a determined Reynolds.

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Broomfield Enterprise

There's a reason why Charles Walters' musicals are less remembered than Stanley Donen's.

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The movie sinks like the Titanic.

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"Beware: The high spirits are contagious"

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