Cabin in the Sky
by Busby Berkeley, Vincente Minnelli
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Actor: Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex IngramDirector: Busby Berkeley, Vincente Minnelli
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Albert Lewis
Producer: Arthur Freed
Producer: Pete Smith
Writer: Joseph Schrank
Writer: Lynn Root
Writer: Marc Connelly
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Cabin in the Sky
Movie Review: classic movie lover
Summary: 5 Stars
This is truely an example of old african american art from this country. While it may offend some as stereotyping, it is done very tastefully and I recommend to young people of today as an exanple of the best that hollywood had to off when this movie was made.
Summary of Cabin in the Sky
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." Debuting movie director Vincente Minnelli (An American in Paris, Gigi) and stars Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are more than a match for the devil in this musical treasure. With a soundtrack of dazzling standards including Taking a Chance on Love and Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe, Cabin in the Sky is a joyous classic.The first film directed by Vincente Minnelli (who directed the original Broadway version), this musical offers its pleasures, but also may make you squirm at the racial stereotypes that were considered both acceptable and entertaining in 1943. A story of the struggle between good and evil for the soul of a man named Little Joe (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson), the film plays with the same kind of racial notions that made Stepin Fetchit a star. Still, there's much to recommend it, particularly performances by some of the greatest musical stars of the day: Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington, among others. The film also includes a terrific score, a combination effort by Ellington, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, and E.Y. Harburg that includes the song "Taking a Chance on Love." --Marshall Fine
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