Take Me Out to the Ball Game

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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 13, 2008
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly & Esther Williams | |
Performer: | Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold, Jules Munshin, Richard Lane, Tom Dugan, Murray Alper, Wilton Graff, Mack Gray & Douglas Fowley | |
Directed by | Busby Berkeley | |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell | |
Screenwriting by | Harry Tugend | |
Written by | Harry Crane & George Wells | |
Composition by | Roger Edens & Adolph Deutsch | |
Cinematography by | George J. Folsey | |
Produced by | Arthur Freed |
Entertainment Reviews:
A lazy Technicolored cinemusical aimed squarely and accurately at the summer box office.
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TIME Magazine
Light-as-air Technicolor comedy in which Kelly and Sinatra star as major league players who can hold their own on the dance floor as well as on the pitch.
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Film4
Rating: 4/5 --
The American pastime was never more fun.
Your Movies (cleveland.com)
There is no pretense that Ball Game is anything more than a romp for Kelly's virtuosity.
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Variety
Rating: B --
An enjoyable, snappy period baseball musical comedy.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
What matters is the stylish ebullience, and the excellent score by Roger Edens, Adolph Green and Betty Comden.
Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
It's brilliant music, and the comedy is a snap.
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DVDTalk.com
Product Description:
Singing, dancing baseball players Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra) and Eddie O'Brien (Gene Kelly) find their friendship tested when both fall for the new, female owner of their team (water-ballet diva Esther Williams). Meanwhile, a crooked gambler (Edward Arnold) tries to sabotage the big game by getting O'Brien fired. It all gets resolved with lots of comedy, songs, dances, and baseball action in a colorful, turn-of-the-century setting. (Miss Williams even swims a few laps in the hotel pool.)
Busby Berkeley directed TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME, but left the choreography to Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, thus the dance numbers emphasize Kelly's athletic grace rather than the fluid camerawork that is Berkeley's signature. Berkeley's exuberant affection for early Americana and his unerring knack for zingy comedy are both on full display, however, and frowns are not an option. Songs include: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," "The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day," and "Yes, Indeedy."
Busby Berkeley directed TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME, but left the choreography to Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, thus the dance numbers emphasize Kelly's athletic grace rather than the fluid camerawork that is Berkeley's signature. Berkeley's exuberant affection for early Americana and his unerring knack for zingy comedy are both on full display, however, and frowns are not an option. Songs include: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," "The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day," and "Yes, Indeedy."
Plot Synopsis:
When a woman (Esther Williams) inherits their major league baseball club, teammates Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra) and Eddie O'Brien (Gene Kelly) are first outraged, then smitten. Soon they are fighting for her affections, and even breaking curfew to woo her. More trouble arises when a crooked gambler (Edward Arnold) tries to sabotage the big game. Of course it's all just a pitch on which director Busby Berkeley nails a big home run of singing, dancing, comedy, and romance.
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- Theatrical release: April 1949.
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- Sales Rank: 27,657
- UPC: 883929007585
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