The Five Pennies
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Movie Reviews of The Five Pennies
Movie Review: The Five Pennies
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best movie ever. I got it for my mom for christmas because it's her favorite movie and she has never had a good copy. the gift brought her to tears.Movie Review: Fantastic movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Danny Kaye is as always phenomenal . The movie has some great musical moments. If you like big band, Louie Armstrong, or Danny Kaye, you will like this movie.Movie Review: DVD Five Pennies Review
Summary: 5 Stars
The more dramatic side of Danny Kaye. Very moving story. Product itself was in good condition and was shipped timely.Movie Review: The Five Pennies
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was delivered sooner the expected. I was very pleased for the service I receivedMovie Review: A trip down nostalgia lane...
Summary: 4 Stars
If you'd follow Danny Kaye anywhere, follow him here. He's at his clever, sometimes apparently improvisational musical best as he brings us the life of Loring "Red" Nichols, from the time Nichols brings his cornet to the big city, through the creation of his Dixieland Band, the 5 Pennies -- which gave a start to, incredibly, among others, the Dorseys, Gene Krupa, and Glenn Miller. The story is not the stuff of Pulitzer prizes, but it is very warm and it goes down easy. And I think what makes the film a standout and earns the stars is the foot-stomping dixieland music, and Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong--the two of them together doing the Saints and Bill Baily; goose bumpy; thrilling!! There is other music written and arranged by Kaye's wife, the extraordinarily talented, Sylvia Fine; and at least one song, Ragtime Lullabye, sung with Barbara Bel Geddes, which still affects me in the most lovely ways decades after I first heard it in the movie theatre. Here, on DVD and with the sound all cleaned up and presented in dolby digital, it's brand new all over again.
The reason I witheld the 5th star is ONLY because there are no extras presented with the disk. It would've been nice to have a trailer or whatever else might have been laying about to enhance the reasoning for the price.
Of course, for me--maybe for you, too, it mattered not. To spend a few hours watching Danny Kaye mugging, singing, acting, and filling the screen with his larger than life self is worth pretty much whatever the ticket says on it!