Down to Earth
by Alexander Hall
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Actor: James Gleason, Larry Parks, Marc Platt, Rita Hayworth, Roland CulverDirector: Alexander Hall
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Down to Earth
Movie Review: Down to Earth
Summary: 5 Stars
Comedy/Musical - great story and fun to watch the dancing and muscial numbers with wonderful costumes as Rita Hayworth protrays one of the muse's. Rita Hayworth's talents really shine in this movie. Also the love story portion is not mushy or overwelming and very entertaining.
Summary of Down to Earth
In 1946 Columbia knew it had all the makings of a blockbuster by reworking the "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" theme along with teaming up some of the original cast members with Hollywood's brightest star Rita Hayworth. The prospects might have been too promising as they enabled Hayworth's agents at the William Morris company to renegotiate her already lucrative studio contract. In DOWN TO EARTH Rita Hayworth's talents are absolutely show-stopping and with the release of this film it's easy to see why she earned the reputation as the Silver Screen's one and only Love Goddess.System Requirements:Running Time: 100 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY Rating:?NR UPC:?043396037076 Manufacturer No:?03707Rita Hayworth really was a screen goddess in the late 1940s--so why not cast her as Terpsichore, the goddess of dance? That's the premise of this splashy Technicolor musical, which borrows some devices (and cast members) from Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Rita descends to earth to inject authenticity into a Broadway show about Terpsichore, posing as an actress and turning the head of impresario Larry Parks (then in the brief moment between his Jolson Story smash and his blacklisting). This leads to an overblown, pretentious out-of-town tryout, an amusing sequence that predicts the highbrow disaster in The Band Wagon. In general, this film is funnier than its reputation, although it doesn't add up to anything and the song score is tepid (with one delightfully weird number where Rita considers bigamy with Parks and dancer Marc Platt). And Rita? Very creamy looking in a series of lavish gowns--and hardly down to earth. --Robert Horton
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