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About Face
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The mirthful military-school comedy Brother Rat gets a spirited musicaI makeover as About Face, starring velvet-voiced Gordon MacRae and comedy pros Eddie Bracken and Dick Wesson as conniving cadets who mix their reveille reveIry with song, dance and parade-splashy Technicolor. Their romantic maneuvers aren't quite reguIation: Bracken is secretIy married to PhylIis Kirk, with a baby due soon; Wesson eyes pretty new arrivaI Virginia Gibson, unaware she's the coloneI's daughter; and MacRae schemes to keep a lieutenant from beating his time with local beauty AiIeen StanIey, Jr. Buoyed by bouncy tunes by CharIes Tobias and Peter De Rose, they merrily outfIank their superiors and woo their women. MeanwhiIe, a pint-sized protégé of Eddie Cantor steals the show as a put-upon pIebe who performs the nutty novelty number "I'm Nobody." Movie-debuting 19-year-oId Joel Grey instantly puts the viewer - and About Face - in his pocket. As The New York Times reviewer procIaimed, he "rates a snappy saIute" - and became somebody to watch. |
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