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Frank Sinatra - The Early Years Collection (It Happened in Brooklyn / Step Lively / The Kissing Bandit / Double Dynamite / Higher and Higher) |  | Directors: Irving Cummings, Laslo Benedek, Richard Whorf, Tim Whelan
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish, Mildred Natwick, Mikhail Rasumny
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 53976
Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 5
Running Time: 461 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 2.9
MPN: 1000037360
UPC: 883929011520
EAN: 0883929011520
ASIN: B0013LL2X4
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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| • | FRANK SINATRA: THE EARLY YEARS COLLECTIONDOUBLE DYNAMITE A racetrack tip puts bank clerk Sinatra in the green ? and in hot water when a substantial amount of cash is missing from the bank. With Jane Russell and Groucho Marx.HIGHER AND HIGHER Starting out ? the King of Swoon?s first credited feature-film role! A maid poses as a debutante in hopes of wooing wealthy bachelor Frank. With Mel Torme and |
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Amazon.com
The young, skinny Frank Sinatra was a big-band singer and the heartthrob of the bobby-soxers when he launched his movie career--a moment in time memorably captured by Frank Sinatra: The Early Years Collection. Five movies take the gangly kid from Hoboken through his hesitant first forays into the Hollywood game; everything here is in the minor-but-tuneful category, before he re-launched his career with From Here to Eternity. It's a fun set for Sinatra fans, not so essential for the casual viewer (and no extra features for vintage-movie mavens). Frankie's first feature, in 1943, was Higher and Higher, in which he plays--hmm--a young singer named Frank Sinatra. All right, it's not much of a stretch, but the kid fits quite comfortably into a madcap ensemble that includes Jack Haley, Mary Wickes, Dooley Wilson, and a youthful (practically unformed) Mel Torme. This is the kind of wacky universe in which a scullery maid has a French accent (it's Michele Morgan) and a British nobleman has a Danish accent (it's piano comedian Victor Borge). The film is completely insane, but fun. Step Lively (1944) has the same director, Tim Whelan, and a similarly over-heated farce in play: a theatrical producer (obnoxious George Murphy) tries to whip together a show while dodging hotel managers (Adolphe Menjou, deadpan Walter Slezak). Frankie's in there as a playwright who also sings. It's a version of the Broadway play that also served the Marx Brothers in Room Service, but the whole thing is really too labored to pay off. It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) doesn't offer much in the way of substance (Sinatra is a WWII vet returning to his beloved, but now less friendly, Brooklyn), but at least Frank is teamed with Jimmy Durante. Oh, and Kathryn Grayson and Gloria Grahame are in there too, even if the real love match is Sinatra and Durante singing together. Tunes are by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, including "Time After Time." 1948's The Kissing Bandit became for Sinatra what The Silver Chalice would be for Paul Newman: a source of self-mockery in later years. A truly bizarre concoction about the son of a Zorro-like bandit settling in Boston, the film has one specialty number featuring Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, and Ricardo Montalban, and a lot of filler. Sinatra's career was sliding by the time Double Dynamite (1951) was released, and the movie did little to help. Frankie's a poor bank clerk who scores on a horse-racing bet but can't prove he didn't actually rob the bank. It isn't great, although Groucho Marx at least has one of his better solo roles, while Jane Russell is stuck in a dizzy-dame part (rather than her preferred sassy mode). For Sinatra, career resurgence would have to wait a while--this box set gives you the superstar-in-waiting. --Robert Horton
Product Description
Includes Double Dynamite It Happened in Brooklyn Step Lively Higher and Higher and The Kissing Bandit.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 883929011520 Manufacturer No: 1000037360
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A GREAT BARGAIN! June 15, 2009
P. Wolske
Reviewer Coleen "Frankie-machine" did a good job of rating the films in this collection, except for "Higher and Higher" (based on the broadway hit), which in my opinion is this sets' best film.
Another reviewer says there are no chapter stops. That is not true. There ARE chapter stops about 10-12 minutes apart. However there are no scene selections, and that sucks! Discs however, are closed captioned.
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Very enjoyable April 5, 2009
STEPHANIE D. MCGOWN (Warner Robins, Ga USA)
Although the movies were not quite what I expecting, I did enjoy them. I would recommend them to any classic movie fan.
 Frank Sinatra at his Singing Best December 31, 2008
Mary Ellen Schwieger (Kansas)
A great series of movies featuring Sinatra's romantic voice and shows why girls swooned so over him. I recommend all the movies. They contained lots of laughter and, of course, Sinatra's great singing voice!
frank sinatra early years December 2, 2008
kathy miller (chelan, WA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i enjoyed it happen in Brooklyn best because i had seen it before and like it for many reasons
Frank Sinatra the early years July 16, 2008
Jimbob (U.K.)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wated a long time to see this collection and I was not dissapointed!
The duo singing in It Happened in Brooklyn was better than I expected.Well done..
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