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It Happened in Brooklyn | 
| Director: Richard Whorf
Actors: Lennie Bremen, Bruce Cowling, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame, Kathryn Grayson
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 9.97
Buy New: CDN$ 6.56
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 21183
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000037043
UPC: 883929009886
EAN: 0883929009886
ASIN: B00143XDZG
Theatrical Release Date: 1947
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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Condition: Delivery from the USA in 10-14 Days via Canada Post (Max 21 Days). Brand New and Factory Sealed Product.
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The dreamy voice doesn't seem to fit the scrawny young fellow singing-- but this was precisely the early appeal of the young Frank Sinatra. He, and The Voice, are on agreeable display in this low-key MGM musical, with Frankie cast as an ex-GI ecstatic at returning to the greatest place on earth. Where else but Brooklyn? The 1947 movie is on nobody's short list of great MGM efforts, and it feels cobbled together from different projects. Sometimes it's a Jimmy Durante comedy, sometimes it's a showcase for snub-nosed Kathryn Grayson's coloratura (she does bits of Lakmé and Don Giovanni), and toward the end it becomes a fundraiser for a local boy who wants to be a pianist--a bizarre distraction from the romantic triangle of Sinatra, Grayson, and Peter Lawford (whose talent resides in Durante's comment, "He has a very fine command of the English language"). Best tune: Ol' Blue Eyes crooning the lovely "Time After Time." --Robert Horton
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Sinatra Sings Mozart? February 18, 2003
Thomas H. Prindle (San Antonio, TX United States)
Indeed he does (La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni) with Kathryn Grayson, and quite gracefully too. This unique duet is worth the price of admission, but in addition you get loveable Jimmy Durante, an icon of vaudeville and early television (where ARE those shows?), and charming Peter Lawford, Kennedy in-law and Rat Packer-to-be! The plot is indeed forgettable, but the highlights make it worthwhile.
 Bronx cheer for "Brooklyn" September 25, 2001
Frank Terranella (Clifton, NJ United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a movie whose time has past. Unlike its contemporary "This Time for Keeps" (also starring Jimmy Durante) this one is stale. It's a relic from the post-WW II years with a script as pedestrian as they get. If you want to see the best this movie has to offer, see "That's Entertainment." The clip there of Durante and Sinatra is all this tired black and white musical has to offer.
 greeeeaaaatt October 21, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
a must for any new yorker or sinatra fan. ps. great musical # by peter lawford
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