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| ACTORS: | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Gordon Douglas |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 24 June, 1964 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Musical |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 085392149322 |
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Customer Reviews of Robin and the Seven Hoods
Off to a very slow start... but improves Not long before this started shooting, there was a major rift in the rat pack, and because of that, only three members (Martin, Davis, and Sinatra, of course) show up here. The other two roles were filled in, and quite ably, by Peter Falk and Bing Crosby. And if you like rat pack-style music, having ensemble numbers with Frank, Dean, and Bing is something you're gonna love.
The last half of this movie is good. It ain't Oceans Eleven, but it's good. Too bad the first half moves slower than a snail on ludes. Crosby doesn't show up until an hour into the film, and the action starts right there; before that, what the movie needs most is an editor who isn't afraid of Sinatra. It does, however, have some fine music (Sinatra debuted "My Kind of Town" here), and once it picks up, it's a lot of fun. Watch it when it comes on AMC, but spend the first half hour or so going to the store to get munchies.
Marvelous
This was a fabulous movie, and deserves much more credit than it is usually given. It's hilarious and smart, and besides the given that the Rat Pack was great in it, Peter Falk was also very funny. The movie is full of great one-liners ("Anybody got beef with that, I got a special complaint box 6 feet long, 3 feet wide."), as well as great songs, sung by the greatest singers who ever lived. Isn't that in itself reason enough to buy this?
An underrated classic.
Why this musical isn't more popular is beyond me. It features the essential core of the Rat Pack, Frank, Dean and Sam, in a great plot, unlike the fun but unfocused "Ocean's Eleven" with the whole gang. It has fabulous songs by that legendary duo Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, including the classic "My Kind of Town." The music is arranged by Nelson Riddle and all the numbers grow out of the plot very naturally, unlike "Guys and Dolls" (plus these guys can sing, unlike Brando). And how about throwing in Bing Crosby and Barbara Rush and Peter Falk for good measure? This is a tough-guy musical with a lot of funny parodies of Chicago gangsters and crooked cops. We've got Prohibition-era gambling joints with bootleggers and booze and Sammy serenading the sound of a machine gun. Dean sings how he loves his mother as he hustles Frank in pool. One hood has a weakness for "knittin'" and another is always making a motion that somebody open a "windah." This is funny stuff, and fast-paced. It has more edge than most musicals, thanks in large part to the world of Sinatra & Co. in the mid-1960s. It may not be the best, but I find it to be the most entertaining musical I've ever seen. There's Bing doing a kind of "Swinging on a Star" thing in "Don't Be a Do-Badder," but-- look out-- there's a lot more to this guy who ain't got style than you think. And there's Edward G. Robinson-- the original gangster-- standing up and making a smiling toast at the beginning, like he did in "Little Caesar," right before . . . well, you'll get the picture if you get this picture, so to speak. Maybe I'm nuts, but I say it doesn't get any better than these guys and these songs in this hip, sly, hard-hitting but fun-as-Christmas beauty of a movie.