Can-Can
by Walter Lang
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Actor: Frank Sinatra, Juliet Prowse, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Shirley MacLaineDirector: Walter Lang
Brand: Cancan
Cinematographer: William H. Daniels
Editor: Robert L. Simpson
Producer: Jack Cummings
Producer: Saul Chaplin
Writer: Abe Burrows
Writer: Charles Lederer
Writer: Dorothy Kingsley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 2.20:1
Running Time: 141 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Can-Can
Movie Review: They don't make them like this any more..
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has so many fantastic people in it, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Juliet Prowse. Such a wonderful and talanted cast. The movie came as a 2 DVD set with Lobby cards and insert. Its in excelent condition and will be taken good care of. Some movies you get a case with it and thats it. I believe this one came from a GoodWill store in Washington State. Would love to get more from them if this is what they are like.
Summary of Can-Can
A 1890's Montmartre Dance Hall Owner Constantly Raided For Performing The Illegal Can-Can Has To Use Her Own Resources When An Elderly Judge Is Replaced By A Younger More Serious One. Based On Abe Burrow'S Play. Music By Cole Porter.How to adapt a Broadway musical for the movies? Well, if you've got Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine signed up, you throw out most of the original and make up something new--which is how Cole Porter's Can-Can came to the screen. It had been a smash on Broadway, and on film Can-Can locked up the #2 box-office spot for 1960 (nestled between Ben-Hur and Psycho). From a modern standpoint, the movie's popularity can be attributed to the stars, the colorful widescreen production, the sexy subject matter, and of course the Porter songs. It can't really be explained any other way, because Can-Can isn't among the most engaging movie musicals; it has the stolid, proscenium-framed look of Fox's 1950s widescreen musicals, and the story is only mildly diverting. The saturated color makes 19th-century Montmarte come to life, and the can-can numbers (and the wonderfully daft Garden of Eden ballet) look appropriately splashy. For a bit of authentic Gallic je ne sais quoi, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan are imported from Gigi, a big hit two years earlier. MacLaine and Sinatra have their cozy chemistry ("Let's Do It" fares especially well with them), and the movie marks the film debut of the dimply dancer Juliet Prowse.
The DVD provides a gorgeous color presentation of the movie. A second disc has some OK featurettes, including a making-of documentary that includes the famous story of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the set of Can-Can, at which he witnessed an ooh-la-la can-can number, after which he denounced the proceedings as an example of Western depravity. --Robert Horton
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