Cheaper By the Dozen
by Walter Lang
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Actor: Betty Lynn, Clifton Webb, Edgar Buchanan, Jeanne Crain, Myrna LoyDirector: Walter Lang
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Editor: J. Watson Webb Jr.
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer: Lamar Trotti
Writer: Lamar Trotti
Writer: Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Writer: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Cheaper By the Dozen
Movie Review: Original Cheaper By the Dozen
Summary: 5 Stars
I must say that I was pleased with this version of the story. I am a stickler for details and the producers of this film did a good job. Although the last child is Jane and not Bob, and the butler/Jack-of-all-trades for the family was Tom and not Jim...this film is well worth watching. It gives a "true" look into the lives and times of the Gilbreth family, and it is nothing like the newer hyped-up "One" and "Two" Cheaper By the Dozen versions that have recently hit the market.
This film portrays the family more as they were, growing up in the early teens and twenty's of the twentieth century. The antics and hilarious lifestyle of how Frank and Lily raised their brood of children is closely correlated to the book by the same title. Of course, the book is always better, and the book on cassette/CD version has a huge chunk of one chapter missing [Chinesee Cooking], I'd still recommend the book if you really want the true flavor of this remarkable family growing up in the early years of the twentieth century.
I would highly recommend this movie as a "G" family rating, and recommend that parents read not only this book to their children, but also the sequel, "Bells on Their Toes." There are numberous other books by the various family members that are also worth reading although they are more difficult to lay hands on. Some libraries still have them...they are worth your time!
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