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Actor: Dennis Crosby, Dorothy Abbott, Joey Bishop, Lindsay Crosby, Madge BlakeBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Winton Hoch
Composer: Billy May
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: United Artists
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Movie Review: Rat Pack out West . . .
Summary: 3 Stars
Oceans Eleven was the first film to feature the infamous `Rat Pack', Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Sergeants 3 is the second and last, to feature these five. The western starts out quite well, but later fizzles into rather mundane silliness. Still, this is mostly a fun and entertaining time, with some Hollywood legends.
Sergeants Merry (Sinatra), Deal (Martin), and Barrett (Lawford), are assigned to lead a group of soldiers on a mission to find out what happened at the town of Medicine Bend, where it is suspected that Indians may have attacked. Bishop is also a soldier, while Sammy Davis is Jonah Williams, an entertainer who tags along with the group.
Soon after their arrival in town, a furious battle with the Indians ensues. The action highlight of director John Sturges's film is quite well-done, punctuated with plenty of explosions, and executed with much gusto and mirth. The attackers, known as the `Ghost Dancers', are driven back into the hills. What happened to the town's inhabitants is not made clear.
Against orders, Deal heads into the mountains to find the Ghost Dancers' lair. Together with Williams, the pair discover the Indians' secret hideout, a cave high in the mountains. Merry leads an improbable rescue mission, where a handful of soldiers hold off a vastly superior force. Bodies keep flying off cliffs, and Williams saves the day by escaping to sound a decisive warning. It all doesn't make much sense, but with no casualties among the Rat Packers, things end better than could be expected.
Mostly an action-adventure, with some comic moments, Sergeants 3 is more to be enjoyed for the distinguished cast, one big battle, and some quality cinematography. It's worth seeing to catch the Rat Pack in action, and a good-natured Dino playing for laughs.
Summary of Sergeants 3
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: NrLurking inside this 1962 Rat Pack movie is a true film classic: 1939's buoyant Kipling adventure, Gunga Din. The plotline's about the same, but the action in Sergeants 3 is transferred from colonial India to the Old West. Our three roistering Army buddies are played by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Peter Lawford, who are assigned a tense scouting mission just about the time Lawford is ready to quit the service in favor of--horrors--marriage. Sammy Davis, Jr., assumes the Gunga Din role, as a freed slave who tags along after the sergeants in hopes of joining the Army. (Yes, he blows a bugle.) Less successfully transferred than this outline is the way the cult from Gunga Din becomes a bloodthirsty tribe of Ghost Dancers in Sergeants Three, a bit of fudged movie history that will have to be taken with a grain of salt. But it's about as believable as everything else in this movie, right down to the fake beards on the cowpokes in the opening saloon brawl. Director John Sturges, who made this movie between his commercial high points of The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, apparently had little interest in making the interiors look like anything but studio sets. The exteriors fare much better, as many were shot in Utah's Bryce Canyon. The actors look as disengaged from this material as Sturges, with oomph sneaking in only when the boys are teasing each other (notably a sequence in which stuffy officer Joey Bishop--yes, he's in here too--is tricked into swallowing a laxative). It's all pretty flat, lending credence to the idea that the movie's long delay in securing a DVD release had less to do with racial insensitivity than with sheer lameness. --Robert Horton
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