State Fair (60th Anniversary Edition)
by Jos? Ferrer, Walter Lang
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Actor: Charles Winninger, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Jeanne Crain, Vivian BlaineDirector: Jos? Ferrer, Walter Lang
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 218 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of State Fair (60th Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: 1945--5; 1962--1
Summary: 2 Stars
Pairing the 1945 and 1962 versions of "State Fair," as this edition does, serves to accentuate how inferior the remake is.
Plotwise, the story does not move; it just happens.
Take, for example, Margy's love interest at the fair. With Pat, in 1945, we see the romance growing; and it is believable that he will come back for her. Sure, he was a cad in the beginning; but we see that change as to story progresses. In the 1962, Larry is a cad at the beginning clear through to the end. We do not see him ever caring for Margy; she is just another conquest. He is not a character who will ever really fall in love.
And look at Wayne. In the original (musical) version, he was embarrassed by the concession stand operator, and he wants to return that embarrassment. In the 1962, he is vindictive. He does not care whether he wins the race, just that he keeps Red from winning--whatever the cost--which he does by running him off the track.
Look at the parents. They are upset because they think Wayne has taken up with some "trash." But they tell Margy "Never Say No to a Man." Some consistent parenting, no?
One of the best bit parts of the 1945, the mince-meat judge, is so underplayed by Wally Cox that the characterization is lost. And, to have a farmer's wife competing in the same category as professional mince-meat makers is ridiculous.
The new music does nothing to advance the plot, and is thrown in just to pad the score. The only song that adds anything to the story is "Dear Hog of Mine."
The only reason the movie was remade was as a star vehicle for Ann-Margaret and a very out-of-character Pat Boone.
I do agree with the reviewer who indicated that, for a real anniversary edition, the first, non-musical version should also have been included.
Summary of State Fair (60th Anniversary Edition)
"I've got that nice, tired old feeling," says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while Oklahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of Iowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem "All I Owe Iowa"? Still, it is R and H, and "It Might as Well Be Spring" is here as well as some other decent ditties. There's a country-mouse feeling as the Frake family journeys to the big city for the annual harvest celebration. Young daughter Margy (Jeanne Crain) has her eye on something more exciting than her bore of a fianc?, while her brother meets a lovely big-band singer with a secret. But the bucolic, Old Farmer's Almanac feel is genuine, and it's most obviously a picture of a bygone era when someone expostulates gleefully, "You're gonna be the wife of a journalist!" Not a "don't miss" but not a dismiss either. --Keith SimantonRodgers and Hammerstein's only score written expressly for the screen highlights this delightful film about an Iowa family's adventures at the fair. Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews and Dick Haymes star.
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