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Jumbo (1962)
Released By: MGM Home Entertainment   Rating: Not Rated   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Charles Walters
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Dean Jagger, Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Stephen Boyd
Published ID: 2626
UPC: 012569707023,
Plot: Inasmuch as the spectacular Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Broadway musical {+Jumbo} was written in 1935, this 1962 film version can't help but seem a little quaint. Still, the film features the original production's star Jimmy Durante, energetically recreating his stage role as circus owner Pop Wonder; it is Durante's bravura performance that saves the film from dullness. Threatened with foreclosure, Pop Wonder and his pretty daughter Kitty (Doris Day) put their fates in the hands of go-getter Sam Rawlins (Stephen Boyd). What they don't know is that Sam is the son of Pop's biggest rival (Dean Jagger), and he's been sent to undermine the Wonder Circus. It goes without saying that Sam turns the tables on his dad, thereby saving the day and winning Kitty's hand. Martha Raye shows up as Lulu, a fortune teller who can't figure out what's going to happen next (funny, we can). And of course there's Jumbo the elephant, who figures into the film's funniest scene (as well as one of Jimmy Durante's most celebrated punchlines). Old MGM musical hands Charles Walters and Busby Berkeley share directing chores, but somehow the film hasn't the panache of their earlier work. Happily, most of the Rodgers-Hart songs are retained, including My Romance and The Most Beautiful Girl in the World-not to mention a few Rodgers-Hart tunes borrowed from other show, e.g. This Can't Be Love. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Jumbo
Added 10/30/2008


A Great entertaining Movie!! We need more like them!!
Martha Raye, and Jimmy Durantie - Two of the Greatest along with Doris Day.
Great Story - I also saw it on Broadway when I was 7 Years old - A long time ago as I'm now 81 years "Young"
Paul

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JUMBO
Added 7/5/2008

The product description is correct. The big-time, big-top extravaganza bursting with laughter, love song and dance circus stunts and starpower is an absolute delight that I will cherish!
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Pound for pound, top notch entertainment
Added 5/21/2008

One of my all time sentimental favorites (did Doris Day record Sentimental Journey), and it's as good today, as it was when I first saw it in the single feature movie houses, which made your night out at the movies feel like a broadway theater engagement outing. Perhaps that is why they focused more on charm, wit, and comedy rather than mass produced non-stop action movie meyhem, competing under a single multi plex. When the lights shined bright on the marquee to focus on spectacle features such as this, with real movie stars to bank upon, rather than headliner directos who hail their savvy with mega blockbusters. JUMBO is a great movie in the tradition of what was class cinema. Drawn against the ever entertaining world of the privately owned circus, mixed with knockout songs, and "wonder" acts, this movie entertains from start to finish, and with never a dull moment. JUMBO is as big as he looks, inside and out!
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Jumbo
Added 3/29/2008

Reveived the movie in a reasonable time and the movie was in excellent condition. I LOVE the movie and hadn't seen it since I was a kid. I am so happy to own it now.
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JUMBO
Added 3/19/2008

A FEEL GOOD MOVIE COULDN'T ASK FOR A MORE ENJOYABLE FILM.
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Jumbo
Added 10/30/2008


A Great entertaining Movie!! We need more like them!!
Martha Raye, and Jimmy Durantie - Two of the Greatest along with Doris Day.
Great Story - I also saw it on Broadway when I was 7 Years old - A long time ago as I'm now 81 years "Young"
Paul

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
JUMBO
Added 7/5/2008

The product description is correct. The big-time, big-top extravaganza bursting with laughter, love song and dance circus stunts and starpower is an absolute delight that I will cherish!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Pound for pound, top notch entertainment
Added 5/21/2008

One of my all time sentimental favorites (did Doris Day record Sentimental Journey), and it's as good today, as it was when I first saw it in the single feature movie houses, which made your night out at the movies feel like a broadway theater engagement outing. Perhaps that is why they focused more on charm, wit, and comedy rather than mass produced non-stop action movie meyhem, competing under a single multi plex. When the lights shined bright on the marquee to focus on spectacle features such as this, with real movie stars to bank upon, rather than headliner directos who hail their savvy with mega blockbusters. JUMBO is a great movie in the tradition of what was class cinema. Drawn against the ever entertaining world of the privately owned circus, mixed with knockout songs, and "wonder" acts, this movie entertains from start to finish, and with never a dull moment. JUMBO is as big as he looks, inside and out!
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