Till The Clouds Roll By
by Richard Whorf
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Actor: Angela Lansbury, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Robert Walker, Van JohnsonDirector: Richard Whorf
Brand: WHV
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Mono; French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Dubbed, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Summary of Till The Clouds Roll By
An Unbeliveable Musical. Van Johnson, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatara, June Allyson, Robert Walker, Katheryn Grayson, Van Heflin, Dinah Shore, Lena Horne and more. A real treat!Hollywood's 1940s craze for composer biographies did not yield many masterpieces, and Till the Clouds Roll By is one of the weaker efforts in the bunch. Robert Walker tries gamely to suggest the decency of Jerome Kern but is defeated by a sluggish story line pairing him with a crotchety mentor (Van Heflin). As a collection of freestanding production numbers devoted to Kern's songs, however, the movie has appeal. It begins with almost 20 minutes of Showboat (including Lena Horne's plaintive reading of "Can't Help Lovin' That Man") and the hits just keep on coming. Judy Garland, who appears in a few scenes as stage star Marilyn Miller, contributes "Look for the Silver Lining" and a Gatsby-esque production number on "Who?" Her songs were staged by then-hubby Vincente Minnelli. Other highlights include a young Angela Lansbury, still with baby fat, singing "How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?" Lucille Bremer, a leggy starlet who never quite caught on, plays Kern's protégé. She spins a delightful duet with Van Johnson on "I Won't Dance," two redheads capering with gusto. It all ends with another splashy theatrical montage, climaxing in Frank Sinatra's take on "Ol' Man River." That might sound like a strange idea, but Ol' Blue Eyes clearly loves the song (he would return to it often in his career) and is in beautiful voice. Despite being a lavish MGM production, Till the Clouds fell out of copyright and into the public domain, so print quality (and even running time) can be variable. --Robert Horton
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