by Warner Home Video
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| Sales Rank: | 42632 (lower is better) |
| Price as of: | 07/02/2009 10:16:38 PM MDT |
| Price Used: | $2.96 |
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| Director: | Gordon Douglas |
| Release Date: | 2001-11-20 |
| Label: | Warner Home Video |
| UPC: | 085392149322 |
| Binding: | DVD |
| Published By: | Warner Home Video |
| ASIN: | B00005NTNQ |
| Category: | DVD |
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"My kind of town, Chicago is...." The last film venture by the Rat Pack finds Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. in an update of the Robin Hood legend, set in Chi-town in 1928. The boys play gangsters who become Jazz Age Merry Men; Bing Crosby is their eloquent spokesman. As usual, women are in short supply within the featured cast, but the film is colorful enough anyway with its period trappings. By the time this movie was released in 1964, the Zeitgeist was already shifting toward the Beatles, and Frank, Dean, and Sammy looked like your father's entertainment. But while this film is no knockout, director Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) makes it a pleasant enough way to say good-bye to the Rat Pack's life together on film. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Sinatra sings "My Kind of Town," and Sammy Davis Jr. interprets the peculiar 'Machine Gun' dance scene... - Reviewed on 2009-02-11
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After an emotional rendition of 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' number one gangster, Big Jim, is shot dead at his own birthday party, and Guy Gisborne (Peter Falk) takes over the mob...
Robbo (Frank Sinatra), a rival gangster, warns Gisborne to stay out of the North Side... John (Dean Martin), a minor hood from Indiana, joins Robbo's gang just before Robbo and Gisborne destroy each other's nightclubs... Robbo rebuilds, outfitting his new gambling hall so that it becomes a new little modern casino at the touch of a button...
Marian (Barbara Rush), Big Jim's daughter, gives Robbo $50 grand to kill her father's murderers, but he orders Will (Sammy Davis, Jr.), his aide, to donate the money to an orphanage... Allan A. Dale (Bing Crosby), who runs the institution, crowns Robbo as a modern-day Robin Hood...
The action takes place in the gangland Chicago of 1928 instead of Sherwood Forest... Amusing ideas abounded... The best being a brief appearance by Edward G. Robinson as the chief hood who is shot by the mob just few seconds in the film...
Don't miss the formidable dance number "Style" performed and sung by Sinatra, Martin, and Crosby...
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- Color
- Comedies
- Comedy
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- Crime
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- Easygoing
- English
- Feature
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- Mafia Life
- Movie
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- Musicals
- Questionable for Children
- Quirky
- Righting the Wronged
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