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One Hundred Men And A Girl [1937]
starring: Deanna Durbin, Leopold Stokowski, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette
directed by: Henry Koster

Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5019322064831
Format: Black & White, PAL
Label: Dd Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Dd Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dd Home Entertainment
Release Date: October 06, 2003
Running Time: 81 minutes
Studio: Dd Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 05, 1937
Sales Rank: 7653

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Depression daydream
Lovely Deanna Durbin is the young girl whose father, the ever-touching Adolphe Menjou, is a trombone player out of a job, and in order to make her dream of a whole symphony orchestra consisting of unemployed musicians come true, Durbin has to enlist the services of famous maestro Leopold Stokowski in order to get financial backing. But how does she go about it?

A delightful, sweet movie, the ultimate Depression daydream, and you will need your Kleenex for the wrap-up. God knows, Frank Capra did the same stuff with a lot more style, but 'One Hundred Men and a Girl' has enthusiasm, guts and is very well, albeit conventionally made and edited. It must have given a lot of people of lot of, admittedly, pretty phoney hope.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great entertainment & footage of Stokowski in his prime
This film was very influential, in that it showed classical musicians as quite likeable, and classical music (in small enough extracts) to be palatable to a mass audience. Certainly it worked on my father, who saw it when it came out around 1937. He had been completely uninterested in classical music, but immediately started buying classical 78's (mostly Stokowski's) on the strength of the performances in this film. Although we have footage of Stokowski later in his career taken from actual concerts, these early scenes of him (admittedly conducting a play-back) give us some idea of how charismatic he must have been. He's also a good actor, delivering his dialogue in a pleasant, natural voice, almost like a documentary in tone. This contrasts ... Read More:

 



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