Good News
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Movie Reviews of Good News
Movie Review: Cliche Story With a Few Good Songs
Summary: 3 Stars
Good News is a frivolous college story. It revolves around a campus filled with energetic youths falling in and out of love with each other. Like most teen movies, it is filled with stereotypes and the main characters are involved in a love triangle. There is a football player (Peter Lawford), the beautiful transfer student (Patricia Marshall), and the frumpy library worker with a heart of gold (June Allyson).
The film is supposed to be set in the 1920s, but the film is very obviously of its own time. The outfits look like the early 1950s even though they've been slightly altered to look like flapper dresses. Everything is very fitted, nothing like the shapeless dresses of the 20s. Some of the music, like the background music, is genuinely historical, but most of the musical songs sound more modern. This causes the film to suffer a bit. "The Best Things in Life Are Free" is a nice song, but the others are sort of bland, even though "Pass That Peace Pipe" was nominated for an Oscar.
"The Varsity Drag" ending is excellent, the best part of the film. Not only is the song great, but the large dance sequence is equally great. It provides a silly ending to a silly film, but it is done with a lot of class and sophistication.
Movie Review: Oh, the good old days.
Summary: 3 Stars
I miss movies with June Alyson. She was always my favorite. This movies makes me feel young again and makes me want to get up and dance.Movie Review: Bad News
Summary: 2 Stars
How this musical from l947 escaped the glorious, legendary Arthur Freed unit--which produced "Meet Me in St. Louis", "Singin' In the Rain," etc.-- at MGM is a mystery. Two non-musical newcomers--pert, girl-next-door June Allyson and handsome, boyish Peter Lawford-were given the main musical numbers and nearly destroyed this Technicolor mess. Supposedly set in the l920s, you'd never know it by seeing all these l940s jitter-bugging bobbysoxers sporting very l947 hair-dos. Allyson sounds like Butterfly McQueen with a hangover and Lawford is so off-key, you would think he was auditioning for the Three Stooges. The only reason for buying this DVD is the vervy, adorable Joan McCracken who plays Babe, and her big number, "Pass the Peace Pipe", is MGM at its best. You probably saw it in the "That's Dancing" compilation from l985. The big mystery is why Joan never made any more movies. She married big-time choreographer, Bob Fosse, and his wild private life was probably more than enough to keep her busy. She died tragically young in l961. Another big mystery is why all the guys are so attracted to the boring, bland, humorless Patricia Marshall who vanished from the Hollywood scene after this movie. One big plus for this DVD is watching the bizarre musical sequences starring Penny Singleton (i.e, "Blondie") from the l930 MGM version of "Good News." In the style of the era, she stomps the floors and shakes her head and sounds horrible. She and the ungainly chorus guys and girls are still fascinating to watch in the pre-Busby Berkely era of dance numbers. The biggest disaster in watching the 1947 version of "Good News" is the one classic song that we still hear today, "The Best Things in Life Are Free." Allyson sings this ditty in her tuneless, hollow voice to Peter Lawford in a medium shot. Nothing happens. She sings, he listens, the camera almost never moves, and we're forced to listen to Hollywood's most non-musical performer assault our ears in a song that seems to never end. Joan McCracken--now completley forgotten--should have had the femme lead and who knows what this would have done to her mysterious career that never happened.Movie Review: picture good;quality bad
Summary: 1 Stars
I gave myself a headache trying to watch this d.v.d
It should have been a most enjoyable movie but the quality of the d.v.d was so bad it was unwatchable.
(I must say here that the fault was in the d.v.d not the d.v.d player as I have not had a problem watching d.v.d's before. or since.
I think something should be done to ensure quality of production when running off d.v.d's.
Movie Review: The MGM glory-days!
Summary: 1 Stars
Count the number of dancers in those spectacular dance sequences. It is amazing. Every student at Tate College must have danced in them. The "Pass That Peacepipe" and final "Good New" numbers I have on constant re-run, never tire of seeing them.