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I'm watching this film on TCM on my DVR. It was a great movie with Marlin Brando. I remember my uncle has the original copy of the same movie when I was in Florida, the quality was bad came from an old VHS tape back in the 1980's and it was in a 4:3 pan/scan format but it doesn't have any widescreen elements before the remastered version was released on DVD or VHS in letterboxed widescreen form. I'm watching that in a letterbox version with excellent quality. Lots of great songs from the movie musical includes the title song, "If I Were A Bell", "More I Cannot Wish You" and "Luck Be A Lady Tonight" a song was before it became popular by Frank Sinatra. I also have the original cast album from 1976 and it was on Motown. The black version of the same musical was not that bad, same songs and the music was slightly updated.

If you're just announcing that you watched a movie, then it's better fit for this thread as opposed to a wholly new topic, unless this is mainly a topic for discussion of the movie "Guys and Dolls". If so, I'll just say that I caught like 10 seconds of it today before changing the channel. Not because it's a bad movie, just because it started already and I caught it midway through and I never like to watch a movie midway through unless I've seen it before. I've heard good things about the movie, but I'm holding off blind-buying it because it's both barebones and non-16:9, so I'll wait until an SE comes out before I check it out.

And if this eventually does get moved to the "What Non-Disney movie did you watch..." thread, I watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture last night to help me fall asleep. Not that it's a boring movie (okay, it is), but the slowness and the score kinda helps me fall asleep.

Escapay

I'm in the same boat as Escapay. I've heard great things about this film, and chances are that as a lover of film musicals, I'll enjoy it, but I'm not buying this blind until a SE comes out.

Yes, this movie (and the play) is really good. I've been in the musical twice. The first time I played Big Jule, and the most recent time (this past December) I played Nathan Detriot.

It's Marlon Brando, not Marlin Brando...............just thought you would like to know.

It looks like Escapay and I will be seeing this soon, afterall. I was browsing through the BBFC site and came across this:

Guys and Dolls - Documentaries and Interviews
The Goldwyn Touch (23:52)
From Stage to Screen (26:39)
Easter Egg #1 (2:36)
Easter Egg #2: Tom Mankiewicz Adelaide (0:49)
Easter Egg #3: Tom Mankiewicz On the Set (1:10)
Easter Egg #4: Michael Kidd Rehearsing Adelaide (1:27)
Easter Egg #5: Michael Kidd Brando Dance Lesson (1:32)

I guess this film will be getting a SE sooner than we thought. Funny how this seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. I haven't heard any rumblings of a SE for Guys and Dolls at all, and now suddenly we've got BBFC-classified specs.

Wow, that definitely was unexpected! I'm guessing with the acquirement of MGM, Sony's going through their film catalog to re-release some of the big titles.

Escapay

Well, DVDActive announced it today, with an April 25 release date

Guys And Dolls: Special Collector's Edition

The cover's better than the current one, and looks to be a single-disc release. Now if only Sony will go and re-release It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as a 2-disc special edition.

Escapay

Cool, looks like a definite buy for me!

I love this musical. Our high school put this show on and I was in the pit orchestra. The music is great! Aiden likes for me to sing "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat!" He LURRVES that song!

Fantastic news about the SE coming out!

And Escapay, if you are a lover of movie musicals, this is worth a blind buy, SE or not!

catNC wrote:And Escapay, if you are a lover of movie musicals, this is worth a blind buy, SE or not!

Oh I'm DEFINITELY a lover of Movie Musicals! In fact, the same day that Guys and Dolls SE comes out, WB is releasing a boxset called "Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory". It's got five MGM musicals: It’s Always Fair Weather, Summer Stock, Three Little Words, Till the Clouds Roll By, and Ziegfeld Follies.

Escapay

Don't know why I originally thought it would be a single-disc release, but Barrie Maxwell's Classic Coming Attractions reports:

Coming on April 25th from Sony's MGM arm is a two-disc Special Collector's Edition of Guys and Dolls (1955) with a new 2.55:1 anamorphic transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Extras are expected to include Damon Runyon's Broadway, Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls Documentary, and a Samuel Goldwyn's Guys and Dolls On-Screen Adaptation featurette.

Escapay

Any ideas on what the special features could be? I started laughing when I though about if Disney had the rights to this.... Just imagine a "Luck be a Lady fortune game! See if you can win the gamble!" similar to the Jafar game on the Aladdin DVD.

I'll be buying this blindly, but am sure I'll enjoy it. The extras seem rather slim for a 2-disc set. The BBFC-classified features I posted only total about an hour, though there's still one documentary left to be classified, it seems. Too bad there don't seem to be trailers or galleries. Other MGM musicals like West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof have gotten them as well as storyboard comparisons.

Disneykid wrote: The extras seem rather slim for a 2-disc set. The BBFC-classified features I posted only total about an hour, though there's still one documentary left to be classified, it seems.

Yeah, it seems rather a waste for a 2-disc set to have only an hour or so of features on disc two. How long is the movie? Would they be able to put all the features on one disc without hurting the video quality?

I'm surprised that there isn't a commentary, though.

Escapay

Well it came out on Tuesday, and I've read a couple reviews for it, but haven't picked it up for myself yet. Anyways, bonus-features wise, it's different from everything else we discussed earlier:

The Goldwyn Touch and From Stage to Screen are included, as is a collectible book, but the reviews are conflicting in terms of the other bonus features. DVD Savant makes no mention of the 5 easter eggs, while Upcomingdiscs.com does, though they're not called easter eggs.

Checked DVDTimes, noticed that their R2 listing includes the stuff that's not on the R1 release:

Damon Runyon's and Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls Documentary
Brando Dance Lesson (though this could be one of the "easter eggs")
Goldwyn's Career (ditto)
On the Set (ditto)
Rehearsing Adelaide (ditto)

And though dvdactive reported it as 2-disc, it's a single-disc.

I wonder why they dumped the documentary...

And *sigh* no trailer...dammit.

Escapay