Cabin in the Sky

A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
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  • ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: August 2, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1943
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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User Ratings: 1,966
Fascinatingly stylized musical. Full Review
Classic Film and Television
Jul 18, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- The strong cast manage to overcome dumb racist stereotyping with terrific songs, with all the jazz musicians inexplicably on the devil's team. Full Review
Empire Magazine
Feb 22, 2019
Lustrous, gospel-folklore retelling of Faust Full Review
CinePassion
Oct 22, 2009
It was possible, even working against terrible odds, to achieve a level of art. Full Review
NPR.org
Oct 18, 2008
The gorgeous dreamlike sets and consummate control of the fantastic atmosphere that imbues the story (an idle, poverty-stricken farmer dreams of being sent to Hell upon dying) are already well developed. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
In only one of two moments, such as the stairway to heaven finale, is there any apparent effort to utilize the facilities of the camera. There are far too many closeups, particularly in the vocal numbers. Full Review
Variety
Sep 10, 2008
Rating: 3/4 -- ...a suspect morality tale, yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Full Review
LarsenOnFilm
Feb 25, 2018

Description by OLDIES.com:

Hollywood's first all-black film since The Green Pastures tells the vibrant fable of rascally Little Joe, torn between the love of his good wife Petunia and the wiles of good-time bad-girl Georgia Brown...and caught in a tug-of-war between emissaries from the Lord and Satan. How can virtue triumph over evil? Well, as Petunia says, "Sometimes when you fight the devil, you gotta jab him with his own pitchfork."

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  • UPC: 888574432447
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