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Guys and Dolls (1955)
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Joseph Mankiewicz's brightly stylized film of Frank Loesser's classic musical (based on the stories of Damon Runyon) casts the criminal underworld as a harmless fantasy in this whimsical vision of the Big Apple. Nonsingers Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons acquit themselves fine in the lead roles as high-rolling gambler Sky Masterson and Salvation Army missionary Sarah Brown. It's odd casting, to say the least. Frank Sinatra, who plays the good old reliable Nathan Detroit (who runs "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York") is left with novelty tunes while husky Brando delivers the love songs and hits, including "Luck Be...
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| Guys and Dolls Movie Review by Jenny (2/27/2007) |
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"Guys and Dolls" is one of my all-time favorite musicals.
The story centers around two couples: Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown, and Nathan Detroit and Adelaide. Nathan and Adelaide have been engaged for several years (Adelaide's even written to her mother that they're already married to avoid disgracing her family). ...
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