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Holistic Guidance - Calamity Jane
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $6.30
Your Save: $ 8.65 ( 58% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson
Directed By: David Butler
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Average Customer Rating: 
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300269569
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300269566
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1992-04-01
Running Time: 101
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1953-11-04
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Editorial Reviews:
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This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the title role, as a wild cowgal who can outshoot and outsing any boy on the range. When an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), Jane tries to mend her tomboy ways. Not exactly up to the feminist code of honor, this is still energetic and Day is very perky. Of course, one could almost detect a homosexual undercurrent with the cross-dressing Jane, but this was Hollywood in the 1950s, so we best not. This won an Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love," by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: A typical Doris Day vehicle
Comment: Doris Day was very good as a singer, dancer heroine. I loved Howard Keel as the baritone Wild Bill Hickok. Supporting cast was also great, but overall just pleasant and fun not great. Definitely a whole family movie.
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Summary: Calamity Jane
Comment: arrived in a timely fashion, DVD had no blips in it. Satisfied. Thank you
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Summary: FUN for the whole family!
Comment: Doris Day at her rip-roaring best! Great songs, great dance routines and just a feel-good movie. It takes liberties with the actual events, but who cares? This turns out swell in the end.
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Summary: Classic Comedy
Comment: If you are hungry for humor, music and dance, Calamity Jane will feed that yearning. Doris Day and Howard Keel will blow your socks off in a duet about the black hills of Dakota. You will giggle picking out all the gymnastics in the many dance numbers. How many times does Doris Day slide in and out of a stagecoach window? I definitely recommend this DVD for your viewing pleasure.
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Summary: One of the best
Comment: Calamaity Jane is a fun way to spend an hour and a half if you can forget your "enlightened" attitudes of the modern era. Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickock shows he can act as well as he can sing, and that is saying a lot. If you just watch him and his reactions to whatever is going on, or who is speaking, you will appreciate his ability to throw himself into a role.
Doris Day as Calamity might have been able to look worse in the rough and ready buckskin outfits, but it is hard to imagine.
The idea that girls are only attractive in ruffles and ribbons is mildly offensive if you let yourself dwell on it. And the "I Can Do Without You" duet is surprisingly physical.
The musical numbers are an uneven mix. The love song "Higher Than a Hawk" is well below what Howard Keel could have done with better material. "Secret Love," which earned the greatest popularity in its time, is sappy and pedestrian. The best song in the whole show is "The Black Hills of Dakota," a duet with Howard Keel and Doris Day, accompanied by a chorus.
If you can overlook two people falling in love because of one kiss as highly improbable, it is a nice story.
Despite its flaws, it is well worth the price of including it in your library, and you will want to take it out to watch whenever you want some good, cheery entertainment.
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