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Movie Reviews of Dimples
Movie Review: curly top - shirley temple
Summary: 5 Stars
My granddaughter saw a commercial with Shirley Temple singing "animal crackers in my soup" and started singing the song. She is only 4 years old. Now I have purchased her the movie and she loves it. She knows every word to the song. This is perfect for little girls instead of the hip hop that is now going around.Movie Review: Underrated Temple Classic Looks Amazing in Living Color !
Summary: 4 Stars
As one of several films Shirley Temple made for Fox Studios in 1936,"Dimples" is also an underrated favorite of mine and it shows why.Temple plays Dimples,a young street corner singer whose beloved grandfather (played by Frank Morgan of "Wizard Of Oz" Fame) is a pick-pocket thief a la Oliver Twist's Artful Dodger.Meanwhile a stage production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is being performed with Dimples in a supporting role.The film ends with an exciting and memorable musical number with Temple and Stepin Fetchit around blackfaced actors which was directed by Bill Robinson.Director William A.Seiter (Laurel & Hardy's "Sons Of The Desert") does a great job with the well-done cast and storyline which may or may not appeal to today's political incorrect audiences but it's a fun and enjoyable film to watch with memorable songs and sequences.Recommended !
ABOUT THE DVD:
First released in a lousy DVD version in 2002 along with "Heidi" and "Bright Eyes",this brand-new restored DVD from Fox and Legend Films as part of the Volume Three Shirley Temple Collection of her classic films.The 2002 release was yet another poorly made DVD that had both an unrestored black & white version and a muddy colorized version from the late '80's.Here with the new release,Fox and Legend do the job right this time with both a restored black & white version of the film with very little speckles of dust and dirt.Also present is a brand-new digitally colorized version of the film,this time with more realistic colors and tones than it did for the original colorized version.Legend always has done very superb and very very good jobs with the colorization process of their films to DVD and also for giving us the restored B&W versions as well and also with the very seldom extras that come with it (hence the four-star rating).The extras include,as I've stated in some previous reviews for the Temple DVD's,the same unrestored trailers for both "Heidi" and "Little Miss Broadway" that've appeared on pretty much every Fox/Legend Shirley Temple release so far and also a nice little Fox Movietone clip of Shirley on the beach which runs only a very short 41-seconds.
Purists will definitely stick to the original black & white version,but this film has definitely gotten the best to its critics over the years and having both restored versions on the disc makes this an another nice purchase to classic family film fans or film buffs all over.Well recommended DVD !
Movie Review: Shirley Temple... and minstrels!
Summary: 4 Stars
How can you resist a movie that puts an American Icon (Shirley Temple) in a climactic sequence featuring a musical stage revue of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", complete with a full chorus of black-face minstrels? It's like the best and worst of two eras of American history meeting in one unholy, quease-inducing but undeniably compelling tableau. The journey to this jaw-dropping climax ain't bad, either, as Dimples features fine production values and performances all around, telling the story of a juvenile street performer in New York in the 1850s, (ab)used as a front for his theiving ways by her grandfather, a down-on-his-heels music teacher named Professor Appleby who is a Dickensian mix of Fagin and Mr Micawber, a role essayed by Frank Morgan (the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz) in an even more vivid portrayal of a born charlatan. This shabby genteel figure even keeps a "manservant" who, if all the minstrelsy isn't enough for you, is a mentally-deficient black man played by Stepin Fetchit in a performance that is maliciously funny. He had the last laugh.Movie Review: Pretty Good, But Shirley's Done Better
Summary: 3 Stars
It's good Fox re-issued these Temple DVDs with much better quality (on those 3-pack Temple collections). You should have seen the first DVD attempt; it was a pitiful transfer. Now, they've done it right.
I liked all the songs and dances in "Dimples," especially the ones earlier in the film. There are a few more numbers here on than on most of her movies, which is fine with me. Temple is still cute and winsome as ever and there are no evil-nasty villains in here, for a change.
Yet, Frank Mogan can be a bit annoying and Stepin Fetchit is just plain aggravating. Fortunately, he has a minor role without much dialogue.
In summary, a decent Shirley Temple movie but she made at least a handful of others during this time period that were much better It's still a sad comment there are only 10 reviews of this, as I submit this in early 2009. Don't people appreciate this girl's talent? She is a legend.
Movie Review: I don't like this movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I love little Shirley Temple singing and acting, but this movie is not the best. If you like Shirley and a collector of her movies than go for it.