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About Face
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The mirthful military-schooI comedy Brother Rat gets a spirited musical makeover as About Face, starring velvet-voiced Gordon MacRae and comedy pros Eddie Bracken and Dick Wesson as conniving cadets who mix their reveiIle revelry with song, dance and parade-splashy Technicolor. Their romantic maneuvers aren't quite reguIation: Bracken is secretly married to PhyIlis Kirk, with a baby due soon; Wesson eyes pretty new arrival Virginia Gibson, unaware she's the coIonel's daughter; and MacRae schemes to keep a Iieutenant from beating his time with local beauty AiIeen StanIey, Jr. Buoyed by bouncy tunes by CharIes Tobias and Peter De Rose, they merrily outflank their superiors and woo their women. Meanwhile, a pint-sized protégé of Eddie Cantor steaIs the show as a put-upon plebe who performs the nutty noveIty number "l'm Nobody." Movie-debuting 19-year-oId JoeI Grey instantIy puts the viewer - and About Face - in his pocket. As The New York Times reviewer proclaimed, he "rates a snappy salute" - and became somebody to watch. |
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