Follow The Boys details
| Format: | U DVD |
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| Starring: | Orson Welles, The Delta Rhythm Boys & Nigel Bruce, Noah Beery Jr., Carmen Amaya, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Walter Abel, Grace McDonald, Louise Beavers, The Andrews Sisters, Vera Zorina, Regis Toomey, Charley Grapewin, George Macready |
| Director: | A. Edward Sutherland |
| Genre: | Music/Musical - Musical |
| Studio: | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Follow The Boys |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 46 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 13 Oct 2008 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Spot the Stars
By a customer from Lewes , 16 Jan 2009[Highly rated reviewer]
Circa 1943/44 there was a spate of films about entertaining the troops in WW2. Following 'Stage Door Canteen', most of the major studios produced at least one movie on the subject, so we had 'Hollywood Canteen', 'Star Spangled Rhythm'(Paramount), 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' (Warner) and 'Thousands Cheer' (MGM) and these usually included turns from most of the studios' contract stars.
Universal's offering 'Follow the Boys' has a vestigial plot in which ex-vaudevillian and later part of famous screen dancing team, Tony West (George Raft) on the outbreak of war starts to organise USO camp shows for the troops, which leads to a marital rift with his dancing partner/wife (Vera Zorina - Broadway star of 'On Your Toes' and 'I Married an Angel' and an ex-Balanchine ballerina - and wife). Also on hand in the narrative, Charley Grapewin (his father) Charles Butterworth (family friend with dog act) and George Macready (studio boss). Raft for some reason alwaysfancied himself as a dancer (Cf 'Bolero' & 'Rumba') and there is a rather ridiculous Gaucho number with Zorina.
However the plot is really only an excuse for a string of variety acts, the most stylish of which, by far, is Orson Welles' magic act in which Marlene Dietrich gets sawn in two.
Dinah Shore sings two 40's favourites 'I'll Walk Alone' and 'I'll Get By': Jeannette Macdonald reprises her 'Beyond the Blue Horizon' and sings 'I'll See you in my Dreams' to wounded GI's in hospital, and we have turns from The Andrews Sisters, W.C. Fields (the billiards sketch), Sophie Tucker, juveniles Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan, pianist Arthur Rubinstein, Spanish dancer Carmen Amaya, and The Delta Rhythm Boys.
So - entertaining for nostalgia fans, and Marlene looks fabulous.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(1)Spot the Stars
By a customer from Lewes , 16 Jan 2009Circa 1943/44 there was a spate of films about entertaining the troops in WW2. Following 'Stage Door Canteen', most of the major studios produced at least one movie on the subject, so we had 'Hollywood Canteen', 'Star Spangled Rhythm'(Paramount), 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' (Warner) and 'Thousands Cheer' (MGM) and these usually included turns from most of the studios' contract stars.
Universal's offering 'Follow the Boys' has a vestigial plot in which ex-vaudevillian and later part of famous screen dancing team, Tony West (George Raft) on the outbreak of war starts to organise USO camp shows for the troops, which leads to a marital rift with his dancing partner/wife (Vera Zorina - Broadway star of 'On Your Toes' and 'I Married an Angel' and an ex-Balanchine ballerina - and wife). Also on hand in the narrative, Charley Grapewin (his father) Charles Butterworth (family friend with dog act) and George Macready (studio boss). Raft for some reason alwaysfancied himself as a dancer (Cf 'Bolero' & 'Rumba') and there is a rather ridiculous Gaucho number with Zorina.
However the plot is really only an excuse for a string of variety acts, the most stylish of which, by far, is Orson Welles' magic act in which Marlene Dietrich gets sawn in two.
Dinah Shore sings two 40's favourites 'I'll Walk Alone' and 'I'll Get By': Jeannette Macdonald reprises her 'Beyond the Blue Horizon' and sings 'I'll See you in my Dreams' to wounded GI's in hospital, and we have turns from The Andrews Sisters, W.C. Fields (the billiards sketch), Sophie Tucker, juveniles Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan, pianist Arthur Rubinstein, Spanish dancer Carmen Amaya, and The Delta Rhythm Boys.
So - entertaining for nostalgia fans, and Marlene looks fabulous.- Was this review helpful to you?
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