A film by Joseph Mankiewicz
The image I have in my head of Marlon Brando is that of Vito Corleone in The Godfather and Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront . The opportunity to see Brando in a musical was just too good to pass up. Guys and Dolls is a musical about gamblers and women, but the story is much better than that.
Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) runs a high stakes craps game. Normally he does not have any trouble finding a location for the game, but the police is putting on the heat and nobody is willing to take the chance nobody but one person who wants $1000 up front to host the game. All of the big mobsters are in town and they are looking for Nathan s craps game. Nathan makes a bet with Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a high roller who will bet on absolutely anything. The bet is that Sky cannot convince Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) to go with him to Havana for the night. This may not seem like that big of a bet, but Sarah Brown works downtown at the mission and is a very straight-laced, Christian woman. Sky Masterson is not the sort of man she would associate with. Sky takes the bet and starts trying to win over Sarah. While Sky is doing this, Nathan is setting up the craps game with the promise of the thousand dollars he believes he ll win from Sky. The only thing raining on Nathan s parade is his fiancee of 14 years, Miss Adelaide (Vivian Blaine). Miss Adelaide is a show girl, and she is getting tired of waiting for Nathan to marry her and she is also completely against the c**p game.
The above description sets the stage for a wonderful musical where we get to see Brando singing Luck Be a Lady . The other song that completely surprised me was Sit Down You re Rocking the Boat , a song I only knew from the much slower Don Henley version. With Sinatra s crooning and Brando singing like I never knew he could, this is one good musical. I would definitely recommend this movie.
The image I have in my head of Marlon Brando is that of Vito Corleone in The Godfather and Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront . The opportunity to see Brando in a musical was just too good to pass up. Guys and Dolls is a musical about gamblers and women, but the story is much better than that.
Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) runs a high stakes craps game. Normally he does not have any trouble finding a location for the game, but the police is putting on the heat and nobody is willing to take the chance nobody but one person who wants $1000 up front to host the game. All of the big mobsters are in town and they are looking for Nathan s craps game. Nathan makes a bet with Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a high roller who will bet on absolutely anything. The bet is that Sky cannot convince Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) to go with him to Havana for the night. This may not seem like that big of a bet, but Sarah Brown works downtown at the mission and is a very straight-laced, Christian woman. Sky Masterson is not the sort of man she would associate with. Sky takes the bet and starts trying to win over Sarah. While Sky is doing this, Nathan is setting up the craps game with the promise of the thousand dollars he believes he ll win from Sky. The only thing raining on Nathan s parade is his fiancee of 14 years, Miss Adelaide (Vivian Blaine). Miss Adelaide is a show girl, and she is getting tired of waiting for Nathan to marry her and she is also completely against the c**p game.
The above description sets the stage for a wonderful musical where we get to see Brando singing Luck Be a Lady . The other song that completely surprised me was Sit Down You re Rocking the Boat , a song I only knew from the much slower Don Henley version. With Sinatra s crooning and Brando singing like I never knew he could, this is one good musical. I would definitely recommend this movie.
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I watched this moving as preparation for working on a commercial production of this. We ended up doing about 35 shows, so it got a little old. It is amazing what odd premises can be used to develop a show around. People did like it as we sold over 15,000 tickets.
Most musicals translate a little odd to film, especially with big name actors. It has been a while since I saw this, although I did see a few minutes of it on TV just last week. This was one of the better musicals I have seen, but even though I have done musicals professionally, I wouldn't go out of my way to see any of them as a movie.
Most musicals translate a little odd to film, especially with big name actors. It has been a while since I saw this, although I did see a few minutes of it on TV just last week. This was one of the better musicals I have seen, but even though I have done musicals professionally, I wouldn't go out of my way to see any of them as a movie.
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