Daily BirthdaysCan-Can (1960)
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| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Cast | Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse, Leon Belasco, Marcel Dalio and Nestor Paiva |
| Theatrical Release | March 9, 1960 |
| DVD Release | May 22, 2007 |
| Running Time | 141 minutes |
| MPAA Rating | NR (Not Rated) |
| UPC Code | 024543438830 |
| Buy this item | $14.99 at Amazon.com As of Jul 4 2:20 EDT (details) 1 DVD, 20th Century Fox, Usually ships in 24 hours, Color, DVD-Video, Restored, Subtitled, Surround Sound, NTSC Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Or 32 new from $10.86, 12 used from $10.65 |
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(32 reviews)| |  | "I love Paris every moment, every moment of the year." |  |
STRENGTHS: Beautiful color, which manages to be flamboyant and engaging both. Intriguing fantasy sequence (presented as the music-hall's take on Adam and Eve), some terrific ballet dances from Juliet Prowse and Shirley McLaine; in fact all the dancers were great. The colorful can-can scenes are an important part of the film and use widescreen to great effect. Wonderful Cole Porter songs, most of them previously written but a delight nonetheless.
WEAKNESSES: A little long -- it was shown in theaters as a "road show" including Overture, Intermission and leaving-the-theater music, all of which made it to the DVD. The Todd-AO widescreen process (ratio 2.2:1) shows a bit of distortion around the edge and the DVD-makers had to "cheat" on the letterbox a little in the Adam-and-Eve ballet scene or else the title characters would be way too small on the home screen. Movie is a little stage-bound and "set-bound" and apparently lacks location shots from Paris, not even the second-unit types.
If your reaction to this film is at all positive, if you enjoyed it at all, I would recommend you rent/buy 1958's Academy Award winner GIGI, which was made a year prior to CAN-CAN. Similar setting in "la belle epoque," with two of the principals in very similar mentor/protegee roles (Maurice Chevalier plays man-about-town Honore Lachaille and Louis Jordan his blase nephew Gaston). GIGI was an expensive picture to make but it shows; unlike CAN-CAN, most of the exterior shots were done in Paris. This meant more risk-taking, especially in night shots, but it paid off; hard to argue with Oscar!
June 21, 2008
 | | Great old time musicals | |
It's great to relive the great musicals and films that kids, as well as adults, can see. Besides, what is better than a Sinatra musical? May 31, 2008
| | | It's the Right Time | |
| | | An almost perfect package | |
| | | Only for Sinatra Lovers! | |