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Damn Yankees | 
| Directors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Actors: Rae Allen, Phil Arnold, Shannon Bolin, Russ Brown, Nathaniel Frey
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 9844
Format: Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D31970D
ISBN: 0790790084
UPC: 085393197025
EAN: 9780790790084
ASIN: B0002Y4TII
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Release Date: October 12, 2004
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America's pastime gets a Faustian twist in this 1958 studio musical, which recounts the ballpark bargain struck by an aging Washington Senators fan obsessed with helping his team trump the Yanks. With echoes of the real-life 1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson scandal, and tart observations on the tradeoffs between youth and experience, IDamn Yankees/I fuses a classic dramatic dilemma with musical comedy to often charming effect.p In transferring George Abbott's Broadway hit to the screen, codirectors Abbott and Stanley Donen are smart enough to retain Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's clever songs, Bob Fosse's sizzling choreography (with Fosse himself on camera for the sultry mambo number), and stars Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon, reprising their devilish turns as the Horned One himself, Mr. Applegate, and his temptress, Lola. Where the team strikes out, unfortunately, is in their concession to marquee politics, handing the pivotal role of Joe Hardy to handsome, vapid, celluloid heartthrob Tab Hunter, whose thin voice and unsteady screen presence argue that he should have stayed in the dugout.p Walston is reliably spry and acerbic as the canny archangel, and Verdon, in one of her rare starring screen turns, confirms the comedic timing and sexy, muscular grace that made her a deserved draw in subsequent stage hits including another Fosse triumph, ISweet Charity/I. With her combination of feline grace and alternately steely, flirtatious femininity, Verdon makes you believe her when she sings, "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets." I--Sam Sutherland/I
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 Damn right this is a good movie! March 5, 2007
Bob (Canada)
I am a die-hard Gwen Verdon fan not to mention a huge fan of Bob Fosse. I watched this movie after my friend reccomended it to me. I sat done not expecting it to be such a fantastic baseball/musical film. I was wowed by the musical numbers because they were very well shot and the dance moves were amazing. I liked the whole plot involving Joe selling his soul to the devil. Ray Walston is great as the fiendish Mr. Applegate who always has a trick up his sleeve. Gwen Verdon makes Lola out as a hot dame who tries to seduce Joe. And Rae Allen is fabulous as Gloria Thorpe who always wants to make news big news.
 SONG LEFT OUT!!! January 20, 2004
Samuel A. Yacono (Steger, Illinois 60475)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie has been one of my top 20 favorites for a long time. I first saw it on television in the mid sixties. The very first song that begins the movie during the opening credits is Think About The Game. When the home video was released, this song, sung by the Senator's while Joe Hardy was busy with the Shifty McCoy trial, was, without explanation or reason, was stupidly left out of the video version. I feel cheated and wanted my money back. Can anyone tell me why?pThank-you.
Hollywood's Hall of Famer: a Grand Slam! January 18, 2004
Arthur F. McVarish (Houston, TX USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Forget about carping reviews. If you like: musical comedies; baseball;Gwen Verdon; selling your soul to the Devil; great dancing; happy endings; ironic gambits reaffirming olde time(pre-PM) morality, DAMN YANKEES is grand slam hit.This film adaptation of Broadway's World championship rendering of "The Year The Yankees Lost the Pennant" is classic Americana(It's more like"The Devil Daniel Webster" than Goethe's Enlightenment epic,"Faust"). Tab Hunter does a fine job as guileless, baseball-loving, middle-aged dreamer who sells his soul to Mr.Applegate (My Favorite Devil/Martian; "Paint Your Wagon" schemer,Ray Walston).pStar of the show is Gwen Verdon. She's the devil's 007-ette,LOLA with"license to get-down".Down and sassy-classy she bedazzlingly is,as she funks; punks;Bob Fosse's-n-weaves/"sleezes" her way on Applegate's satanic service to seduce Superstar Joe Hardy into "eternal contract".WHATEVER LOLA WANTS (ultimately)she doesn't get. Because...like the show's theme banners...YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART! In The Ninth,Verdon's not-so-wicked witch of the West(like this superbly entertaining; funny; full-of-good-will fun flick) has Valentine Heart to the max.If you're a Yankee fan (as lovers of baseball begrudingly become)catching a glance of baseball legend Mickey Mantle in the film is a nice touch recalling innocence in values that've been lost to the Real Applegate and cohorts.Being from Houston, I look forward to some Yankee greats pitching for us next year. Until then, DAMN ASTROS(er)YANKEES is a Hollywood Hall-of-Famer well worth checking-out and cheering on.
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