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| ACTORS: | Judy Garland, Ray Bolger |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | George Sidney (II) |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 18 January, 1946 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Musical |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 012569534827 |
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Customer Reviews of The Harvey Girls
STUNNING! This HARVEY GIRLS DVD is "Metro-GARLAND-Magic" Hats off to Ted Turner's crew and their partners at Warner Home Video for a simply stunning DVD presentation of THE HARVEY GIRLS. The film looks sumptuous. A thrilling example of Technicolor at its most splendid. Although THE HARVEY GIRLS is a thoroughly delightful entertainment, there isn't much substance to the plot. It seems to hardly matter, as the film's major virtues are its great score by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren, superb performances from a great cast, and of course, the peerless Judy Garland.
If anyone else had played the lead in this picture, it would have been long forgotten. This is Judy's show, all the way, and everything about it is designed to show off her immense talents.
She is at the top of her form here...looking lovely, singing gorgeously, dancing with aplomb, and handling both dramatic and comedic scenes better than anyone else could ever dream to. The biggest highlight of the film is the mammoth eight-minute production number ON THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND THE SANTA FE which ended up winning a Best Song Oscar. This sequence alone is worth the price of the DVD, and the Warner Home Video people give us an extra bonus by presenting the number separately in TRUE STEREO! Astounding!
The supplementary materials are vast and beautifully assembled. The commentary by recently-deceased director George Sidney was fortunately captured for this release, and his thoughts and reminiscences are entertaining and charming. There were four musical numbers intended for this picture which were cut before release. MARCH OF THE DOAGIES and its reprise and MY INTUITION are the three that were filmed, and they are included on this DVD, looking like they were filmed yesterday (actually they look TOO good to have been filmed in this day and age). The one unused song that was recorded but not filmed called HAYRIDE is among the more than 20 pre-recording sessions included on the DVD's "Sing Song Express". A captivating opportunity to be present on the Metro recording stages as they laid down these historic tracks. You can hear the starts and stops, the banter and laughter...It's almost like being there. The disc also includes a trailer.
Hats off to Warner and Turner for a splendid job well done, a VAST improvement from the once-impressive laserdisc release, which is now unwatchable in comparison to this DVD. Add to this the VERY reasonable price of this movie, and it can't be beat. Now the big question: "When will Warner give us MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, EASTER PARADE and the rest of the golden Garland catalog?" Let's hope it's soon. If this DVD is any indication of what those will be like, we are in for a treat.
Expert But Conventional
A fine cast, superior score, and excellent production values highlight this otherwise conventional musical inspired by real-life adventures of Harvey restaurant waitresses during the 1880s. Perhaps best described as Americana at its most milk-fed wholesome, the film concerns the clash between the influence of "good girl" waitresses (led by Judy Garland) and "bad girl" saloon hostesses (led by Angela Lansbury) as they square off over both customers and beaus in an Old West frontier town.
THE HARVEY GIRLS is justly famous for the production number "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe," an extremely complex and exciting bit of work; other memorable moments include Garland, Virginia O'Brien, and Cyd Charisse's trio on "It's A Great Big World" and O'Brien's drop-dead witty "Wild Wild West." The enjoyable cast also includes charming performances by Ray Bolger, Chill Wills and Marjorie Main. Even so, the film seldom seems to rise above tepid, and THE HARVEY GIRLS lacks the inspiration of a truly great musical--particularly so when compared with such Garland classics as MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS and THE PIRATE. Recommended, but don't expect too much.
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe with Judy et al.
Just look at the cast on this one: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Cyd Charisse, Virginia O'Brien and even Marjorie Main. The score is by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, whose Oscar winning song "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" is highlighted wonderfully in a massive production number with the train coming into town and everybody celebrating. Actually, Judy is a mail-order bride who finds out her prospective husband is rancher Chill Wills. Understandably, Judy would rather have John Hodiak, the owner of the dance hall. Okay, so the plot is lame. Judy ends up as one of the "Harvey Girls," who came out west to work in the Harvey Restaurants set up along the railroad. The important thing here is that everybody has big time fun and the songs are hits more often than misses. Not a great movie musical, but well above average to be sure.