Product description

Sweet Charity [1969]

Price: £12.95
RRP: £5.99
Average customer rating: 4.0

Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 0044004489430
Label : 4 Front Video
Manufacturer : 4 Front Video
Publisher : 4 Front Video
Release date : 1999-07-01
Title : Sweet Charity [1969]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1969-01-01
Running time : 142
Studio : 4 Front Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1969-04-01
Number of discs : 1

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
After several years as the hottest musical director on Broadway, Bob Fosse made his film directorial debut with this movie version of his Broadway hit, which was based on Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. Shirley MacLaine is terrific as the proverbial hooker with the heart of gold, one who is convinced that she will find the right man if she just turns enough tricks. The Cy Coleman score is a solid one; the film is at its best when Fosse lets his cast of singer-dancers (which includes Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, and Sammy Davis Jr) unleash his leggy brand of choreography. While the film suffers from stylistic excesses of the period, you can see the seeds being planted for Fosse's future musical film forays in Cabaret and All That Jazz. --Marshall Fine

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2007-08-08 rating:

HEY BIG SPENDER BUY THIS ONE
I first watched this film on its cinema release in the U.K. I loved it then and still do today. My tape version has seen better days so I splashed out on the dvd and I am not sorry. (dvd`s in Africa are very expensive compared to the U.K.)Shirley MacLaine is superb and there could not have been a better choice to take the lead role. Supporting actors Stubby Kay, Ricardo Montalban and Sammy Davis Jnr add to the quality of the production and Chita Rivera is brilliant. The dvd offers an alternate ending but I must confess that I have never watched it.

review by: Big George date: 2006-12-30 rating:

Glorious Stuff
Sweet Charity is a truly wonderful film that contains more than the track Big Spender! It has also got Sammy Davis Jr., belting out 'The Rhythm of Life', the classic 'There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This', not to mention 'If My Friends Could See Me Now'. It is a film about hope and love and reality. Shirley MacLaine is, as usual, stunning. The Bob Fosse dance moves are everything you expect and I can't think of a better musical to sit down to on a rainy Saturday afternoon!

review by: David Turner date: 2005-12-09 rating:

Sweet Charity - Visually excllent - soundtrack poor.
Shirley Mclaine gives a brilliant and vital performance as Sweet Charity. The dance sequences and choreography show Bob Fosse's genius to the full in this, his first film and an excellent foretaste of his future work. The film was marred by a poor soundtrack with bad mixing between narration and music. The speech is muffled and divorced from the music and ambient sound.
Also having the English and French audio only in stereo with the other languages in surround seemed a strange decision

David Turner

review by: bookwormoncrete date: 2005-02-27 rating:

Shirley Maclain still amuses
Who doesn't know the song 'Big Spender'?

Still one of Shirley's best movies, pity the soundtrack during dialogue is a bit muffled it could have done with the treatment they've given to the music

review by: julieanne12 date: 2003-09-07 rating:
a classic!
Sweet Charity is a classic film - it really is. Shirley MacLaine plays naive "Charity" - Dear Sweet Charity - always looking for love - and always falling for Mr Wrong! I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at the bridge scene. Shirley sits on the bridge with the love of her life, singing to him she had drawn out every last cent she owned and she would share it with him because she loves him that much! She continues singing we should thrown something "for luck" into the river - (don't forget she is sitting on the bridge) At this point you just have to covered your face - you can see what's coming! But Shirley never gives up hope - I think that could be the message of the film - she never allows life to dent her spirits for long. Watch the film and you'll see. The film has energy, amusement value and the chorography is just second to none in my opinion. One of my definite all time favorites - I loved it when I was a child - I love it more as an adult! - brilliant.

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