Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 13, 2008
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams & Gene Kelly | |
Performer: | Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold, Jules Munshin, Richard Lane, Tom Dugan, Murray Alper, Wilton Graff, Mack Gray & Douglas Fowley | |
Directed by | Busby Berkeley | |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell | |
Screenplay by | Harry Crane & George Wells | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & Daniel B. Cathcart | |
Story by | Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen | |
Produced by | Arthur Freed | |
Director of Photography: | George J. Folsey |
Entertainment Reviews:
Seldom has there been a film loaded with such fine entertainment.
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Associated Press
Rating: 4/5 --
The American pastime was never more fun.
Your Movies (cleveland.com)
There is no pretense that Ball Game is anything more than a romp for Kelly's virtuosity.
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Variety
Light-as-air Technicolor comedy in which Kelly and Sinatra star as major league players who can hold their own on the dance floor as well as on the pitch.
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Film4
What matters is the stylish ebullience, and the excellent score by Roger Edens, Adolph Green and Betty Comden.
Time Out
The plot is typical fluff -- Kelly and Sinatra join Esther Williams's baseball team at the turn of the century -- but the production values are, as always, worth the price of admission.
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Chicago Reader
It must be said, too, that Mr. Kelly and his side-kick do right nicely by a brisk thing called "Yes, Indeedy," as well as the title song.
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New York Times
Product Description:
Singing, dancing baseball players Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra) and Eddie O'Brien (Gene Kelly) find their friendship tested when both fall for the new, female owner of their team (water-ballet diva Esther Williams). Meanwhile, a crooked gambler (Edward Arnold) tries to sabotage the big game by getting O'Brien fired. It all gets resolved with lots of comedy, songs, dances, and baseball action in a colorful, turn-of-the-century setting. (Miss Williams even swims a few laps in the hotel pool.)
Busby Berkeley directed TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME, but left the choreography to Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, thus the dance numbers emphasize Kelly's athletic grace rather than the fluid camerawork that is Berkeley's signature. Berkeley's exuberant affection for early Americana and his unerring knack for zingy comedy are both on full display, however, and frowns are not an option. Songs include: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," "The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day," and "Yes, Indeedy."
Busby Berkeley directed TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME, but left the choreography to Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, thus the dance numbers emphasize Kelly's athletic grace rather than the fluid camerawork that is Berkeley's signature. Berkeley's exuberant affection for early Americana and his unerring knack for zingy comedy are both on full display, however, and frowns are not an option. Songs include: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," "The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day," and "Yes, Indeedy."
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- Sales Rank: 7,300
- UPC: 883929007585
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