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ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Starring: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold and Keenan Wynn. An M.-G.-M. Picture. Director: George Sidney.
Certificate-. U. Category: C.
Running time : 107 minutes.
It is becoming increasingly rare to find a film that can be recommended for family audiences. Such films have to have something more than merely harmless morality. They need to be able to bind the family together in common enjoyment so that at the subsequent inquest on the film, each member can relate his own particular enjoyment to the family pool. Such films are not necessarily superior from an artistic or technical point of view, but they must have a quality of fun and pathos which lifts them above the common rut of escapist entertainment. Annie Get Your Gun is such a film. It is a technicolored translation into film of the highly successful stage presen
tation which drew large and delighted audiences to Coliseum. It is not, from the film point of view, an outstanding piece of work; indeed, it seems, from what I am told by devotees of both media, to have missed many opportunities for film expression and to have been content with a more or less straightforward translation to the screen. It emerges as an honest to goodness musical comedy with catchy tunes, pleasing colour and amusing antics from Betty Hutton who bids fair to provide a feminine gender to Danny Kaye.
The characters are historical in the sense that there was a lady sharpshooter called Annie Oakley who travelled with Buffalo Bill and Big Chief Sitting Bull and who did appear before Queen Victoria, much to that eminent lady’s astonishment. But one does not go over a film like this with an historical toothcomb. One is content with and grateful for the amusement and pleasure it provides.
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