Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees
by George Abbott, Stanley Donen

Damn Yankees
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Actor: Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Tab Hunter
Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Brand: VERDON,GWEN
Writer: George Abbott
Producer: Stanley Donen
Producer: Frederick Brisson
Producer: Harold Prince
Producer: Robert E. Griffith
Writer: Douglass Wallop
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
  • Starring the original Broadway cast, this is the musical adaptation of the novel "The Year The Yankees Won The Pennant" with a score by Adler & Ross ("The Pajama Game") and choreography by Bob Fosse. Washington Senators fan Joe Boyd sells his soul to the devil, Mr. Applegate, to become the greatest baseball player ever and to help his favorite team win the pennant. However, doing this means Jo

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Movie Review: WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE?
Summary: 5 Stars

1958 DAMN YANKEES directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen. Movie based on the big stage hit of the same name, uses all the actors from the play with the addition of a "Hollywood" name, Tab Hunter, who is very good in this movie. Story about a man who sells his soul to the devil, played by Ray Walston, (in the role that made him a star), so he can play baseball for the Washington Senators and help them win the Pennant. Gwen Verdon, dancing Bob Fosse choreography, is certainly one of the reasons to see this film. She plays the Devil's assistant. She is great in the "Whatever Lola Wants" and the nightclub dance nuimbers. And you can see her future husband, Bob Fosse, dance with her in the "Who's got the Pain" dance sequence. The "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo." number with the baseball team is fun. Great songs, great dancing, great acting/story, what's not to like?

The print and color on this DVD are gorgeous.

Summary of Damn Yankees

In this retelling of the Faust legend, a fan sells his soul to the devil to give his favorite baseball team a chance at the World Series.
Genre: Musicals
Rating: NR
Release Date: 12-OCT-2004
Media Type: DVD
America's pastime gets a Faustian twist in this 1958 studio musical, which recounts the ballpark bargain struck by an aging Washington Senators fan obsessed with helping his team trump the Yanks. With echoes of the real-life 1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson scandal, and tart observations on the tradeoffs between youth and experience, Damn Yankees fuses a classic dramatic dilemma with musical comedy to often charming effect.

In transferring George Abbott's Broadway hit to the screen, codirectors Abbott and Stanley Donen are smart enough to retain Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's clever songs, Bob Fosse's sizzling choreography (with Fosse himself on camera for the sultry mambo number), and stars Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon, reprising their devilish turns as the Horned One himself, Mr. Applegate, and his temptress, Lola. Where the team strikes out, unfortunately, is in their concession to marquee politics, handing the pivotal role of Joe Hardy to handsome, vapid, celluloid heartthrob Tab Hunter, whose thin voice and unsteady screen presence argue that he should have stayed in the dugout.

Walston is reliably spry and acerbic as the canny archangel, and Verdon, in one of her rare starring screen turns, confirms the comedic timing and sexy, muscular grace that made her a deserved draw in subsequent stage hits including another Fosse triumph, Sweet Charity. With her combination of feline grace and alternately steely, flirtatious femininity, Verdon makes you believe her when she sings, "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets." --Sam Sutherland

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