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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DVD-R Details
- 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)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson & Lena Horne | |
Performer: | Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, Ford L. Washington & John W. Sublett | |
Directed by | Vincente Minnelli | |
Edited by | Harold F. Kress | |
Music by | Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke, John Latouche & Ted Fetter | |
Screenwriting by | Joseph Schrank | |
Composition by | Roger Edens | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & Leonid Vasian | |
Produced by | Arthur Freed | |
Director of Photography: | Sidney Wagner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Fascinatingly stylized musical.
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Classic Film and Television
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.
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Empire Magazine
Lustrous, gospel-folklore retelling of Faust
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CinePassion
It was possible, even working against terrible odds, to achieve a level of art.
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NPR.org
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.
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Time Out
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.
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Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
...a suspect morality tale, yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside.
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LarsenOnFilm
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 32,948
- UPC: 888574432447
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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