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Title: Annie Get Your Gun
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 22/04/2002
Actors: Benay Venuta, Betty Hutton, Clinton Sundberg, Edward Arnold, Howard Keel, J. Carrol Naish, Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern
Director: George Sidney, George Sidney (II)
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour and 43 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Subtitle Language: en, English
Certificate: BBFC U
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
DVD Special Features:

All-new introduction by Annie get Your Gun Broadway revival star Susan Lucci
4 Outtake musical numbers
Audio Recording Session Track for : "There's No Business Like Show Business"
Interactive Menus Scene Access
Language: English, Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles: English. Hearing impaired: English.
1.33:1 regular



AMAZON REVIEW
Irving Berlin's classic stage musical Annie Get Your Gun finally reached the big screen in 1950, four years after it had taken Broadway by storm. The irresistible combination of the story of ground-breaking sharpshooter Annie Oakley, fantastic songs like the rousing anthem "There's No Business Like Show Business" and the setting of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, made most people feel it was worth the wait.

More than half a century on, the book creaks audibly and the treatment of the "Indians" who make up the bulk of the troupe is inevitably embarrassing. But in glorious Technicolor, this in-your-face spectacular defies you not to get sucked in. Quite simply, the show is a winner. Ethel Merman's performance on Broadway became an immediate show business legend, but she was largely ignored by Hollywood. Here, Betty Hutton's whirlwind Annie is, on its own terms, an explosive and hugely entertaining turn, matched by Howard Keel in his first starring part as Frank Butler. But Judy Garland was the first choice for the role and had already filmed several numbers before MGM fired her for her erratic behaviour. It seems almost cruel to include a couple of her songs as extras; even a 40-watt Garland makes the otherwise incandescent Hutton look merely adequate. They certainly add a frisson to this celebration of all-American entertainment at its boldest and brassiest.

On the DVD: Annie Get Your Gun is presented in standard 4:3 format (the original aspect ratio was a similar 1.37:1) and the picture quality is so sharp it blows you out of your seat. Likewise the stereo soundtrack, brilliant for songs which include "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "Anything You Can Do" and the sublime "They Say it's Wonderful". Apart from the Garland numbers, the extras include a Hutton outtake and an introduction to the show from a recent Broadway Annie, Susan Lucci. Overall, though, the show's the thing. --Piers Ford

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