Damn Yankees
starring: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin
directed by: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
directed by: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
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Film adaptation of the george abbott broadway musical about a washington senators fan who makes a pact with the devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 08/22/2006Starring: Tab Hunter Jean StapletonRun time: 111 minutesRating: NrDirector: George Abbott/stanley Donen
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America's pastime gets a Faustian twist in this 1958 studio musical, which recounts the ballpark bargain struck by an aging Washington Senators fan obsessed with helping his team trump the Yanks. With echoes of the real-life 1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson scandal, and tart observations on the tradeoffs between youth and experience, Damn Yankees fuses a classic dramatic dilemma with musical comedy to often charming effect.
In transferring George Abbott's Broadway hit to the screen, codirectors Abbott and Stanley Donen are smart enough to retain Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's clever songs, Bob Fosse's sizzling choreography (with Fosse himself on camera for the sultry mambo number), and stars Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon, reprising their devilish turns as the Horned One himself, Mr. Applegate, and his temptress, Lola. Where the team strikes out, unfortunately, is in their concession to marquee politics, handing the pivotal role of Joe Hardy to handsome, vapid, celluloid heartthrob Tab Hunter, whose thin voice and unsteady screen presence argue that he should have stayed in the dugout.
Walston is reliably spry and acerbic as the canny archangel, and Verdon, in one of her rare starring screen turns, confirms the comedic timing and sexy, muscular grace that made her a deserved draw in subsequent stage hits including another Fosse triumph, Sweet Charity. With her combination of feline grace and alternately steely, flirtatious femininity, Verdon makes you believe her when she sings, "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets." --Sam Sutherland
Film adaptation of the george abbott broadway musical about a washington senators fan who makes a pact with the devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 08/22/2006Starring: Tab Hunter Jean StapletonRun time: 111 minutesRating: NrDirector: George Abbott/stanley Donen
Amazon.com:
America's pastime gets a Faustian twist in this 1958 studio musical, which recounts the ballpark bargain struck by an aging Washington Senators fan obsessed with helping his team trump the Yanks. With echoes of the real-life 1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson scandal, and tart observations on the tradeoffs between youth and experience, Damn Yankees fuses a classic dramatic dilemma with musical comedy to often charming effect.
In transferring George Abbott's Broadway hit to the screen, codirectors Abbott and Stanley Donen are smart enough to retain Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's clever songs, Bob Fosse's sizzling choreography (with Fosse himself on camera for the sultry mambo number), and stars Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon, reprising their devilish turns as the Horned One himself, Mr. Applegate, and his temptress, Lola. Where the team strikes out, unfortunately, is in their concession to marquee politics, handing the pivotal role of Joe Hardy to handsome, vapid, celluloid heartthrob Tab Hunter, whose thin voice and unsteady screen presence argue that he should have stayed in the dugout.
Walston is reliably spry and acerbic as the canny archangel, and Verdon, in one of her rare starring screen turns, confirms the comedic timing and sexy, muscular grace that made her a deserved draw in subsequent stage hits including another Fosse triumph, Sweet Charity. With her combination of feline grace and alternately steely, flirtatious femininity, Verdon makes you believe her when she sings, "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets." --Sam Sutherland
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- Damn Yankees
This is a classic. My husband really enjoys this movie from his youth. Good storyline and a musical taboot. Very enjoyable Tab Hunter and Ray Walston oldie.
Rating: - The Great Gwen Verdon
Along with Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, Gwen Verdon was one of the great stars of the American Musical Theatre, and like those other legendary ladies, she seldom got the chance to strut her stuff when her Broadway hits were turned into movies.
The one exception was her breakout role in the fabulous musical-comedy DAMN YANKEES!
Along with fellow Tony winner Ray Walston and the rest of the original Broadway cast (with one key exception), Gwen went to Hollywood to recreate ... Read More
Rating: - One of the greatest musicals ever made ! ! ! ! !
I was so ecstatic to see this movie! I'm 50 years old and hadn't seen this classic since I was a kid (years after on t.v.) I truly recommend this movie young and old alike, a timeless love story.
Rating: - Damn good
An oldie but goodie, Ray Walston at his best years before Fast Times At Ridgemont High.Gwen Verdon when hot was more than cosmetic. Very good transition from stage to film. Excellent story.
Rating: - damn yankees
It was excellent.The only problem that I had with it was that it was in wide screen with bars at top and bottom.
- Damn YankeesThis is a classic. My husband really enjoys this movie from his youth. Good storyline and a musical taboot. Very enjoyable Tab Hunter and Ray Walston oldie.
- The Great Gwen VerdonAlong with Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, Gwen Verdon was one of the great stars of the American Musical Theatre, and like those other legendary ladies, she seldom got the chance to strut her stuff when her Broadway hits were turned into movies.
The one exception was her breakout role in the fabulous musical-comedy DAMN YANKEES!
Along with fellow Tony winner Ray Walston and the rest of the original Broadway cast (with one key exception), Gwen went to Hollywood to recreate ... Read More
- One of the greatest musicals ever made ! ! ! ! !I was so ecstatic to see this movie! I'm 50 years old and hadn't seen this classic since I was a kid (years after on t.v.) I truly recommend this movie young and old alike, a timeless love story.
- Damn goodAn oldie but goodie, Ray Walston at his best years before Fast Times At Ridgemont High.Gwen Verdon when hot was more than cosmetic. Very good transition from stage to film. Excellent story.
- damn yankeesIt was excellent.The only problem that I had with it was that it was in wide screen with bars at top and bottom.
