Product Details

• Actors: Eugene Pallette, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman
• Directors: Busby Berkeley
• Producers: The Gang's All Here ( The Gang is All Here ) ( The Girl He Left Behind ), The Gang's All Here, The Gang is All Here, The Girl He Left Behind
• Format: Import, PAL
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Fox
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PSS126
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #589,656 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Sweden released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Danish ( Subtitles ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason Sr. (Eugene Pallette), a wealthy, blustery Wall Street financier. While paying respects to his father and the latter's business partner, dithering fuss-budget Peyton Potter (Edward Everett Horton), at the Club New Yorker, he spots chorus girl Eadie Allen (Alice Faye) and turns on the charm and all of the allure that the ne'er-do-well son of a Wall Street millionaire can muster. That, however, doesn't impress Eadie, who ignores his invitation so she can do her patriotic bit helping servicemen at the Stage Door Canteen (or, as it's called here, the 'Broadway Canteen'). Realizing how down to earth and genuine she is -- exactly the kind of girl who doesn't care about his money or social position -- Andy shows a bit of the boyish innocence he has hidden beneath the arrogance that comes from his background of wealth and privilege, and also some humility, hiding that background and his real name. Before the night and their 'date' on the Staten Island Ferry are over, they're genuinely in love with each other, but that presents a problem -- since age 12, Andy has been unofficially 'engaged' to Potter's daughter Vivian (Sheila Ryan), who expects to marry him, and he can't quite bring himself to hurt Vivian by telling her that he's met someone else. Flash forward a few months, and Andy is on his way home on ...The Gang's All Here ( The Gang is All Here ) ( The Girl He Left Behind )

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The 2008 remastered version is a big improvement, July 12, 2008

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Middle America Electronica Fan (Fairway, KS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gang's All Here (DVD)

For fans of this movie: yes, the newly remastered edition is much better than the 2007 release. Colors are back to their original super-saturated intensity. If you love this movie, and have the lackluster 2007 version, buy it again, and use the old copy as your "lend it to a friend" copy (which you'll most likely never see again, since everyone I've ever shown this movie to loves it immediately). It's worth the extra $15 or so to have it right this time. Get it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Took over 20 years to get this onto video!, February 6, 2007

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Usonian33 (United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Gang's All Here (DVD)

AT LAST.

Fox never released this surreal film on VHS (why!?), and so it became one of those Holy Grail films that movie buffs have been waiting for (it was released on laserdisc ages ago, though I know of no one who actually owns it). It's great that we are finally getting the DVD.

Was lucky to see this in a theater in NYC 2 years ago, where the crowd loved every minute of it--especially the antics of Carmen Miranda. It does have the dumbest script of any musical I can think of, which is really saying something--especially when you consider other Fox wartime musicals.

On the big screen it LOOKS amazing: the color, the art direction, the costumes, the choreography, the neon hoops, the bananas. (UPDATE: Just watched the DVD--and sadly the color is not replicated very well...the print I saw was much, much richer than this. Oh well.)

How can you not love a movie where the whole cast is washed away by a fountain of purple water at the fade out? I'm not kidding.

Thank you Fox, Thank you.

28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Way over the top, May 6, 2006

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M. Boring "MitchB" (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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20th Century Fox please release this film on DVD!!!

The first time I saw this movie I laughed so hard I nearly made
myself sick. This film starts off with an over the top production number "Brazil/You Discover Your In New York" which
makes you think that nothing in the film can ever get more campy. Alice Faye comes in with a couple of great numbers-
"A Journey to a Star" and "No Love, No Nothin'." But fasten your
seat belts because Carmen Miranda and Busby Berkley are about to
bring you "The Lady In the Tutti-Fuity Hat." This is easily one
of the most over the top musical numbers ever put on film. The
number is supposed to be on nightclub stage that must the size
of a small town. Bananas are everywhere including chorus girls
dancing with giant bananas!! At the end of the number a close-up
of Carmen keeps pulling back to reveal Carmen's hat with an endless stream of bananas flowing out and Carmen surrounded by
giant strawberries! Edward Everret Horton and Charlotte Greenwood are on hand to add to insanity. Then to top it off
Alice ends the film with "The Polka-Dot Polka" which brings to
mind Busby's "Shadow Waltz." In "Shadow Waltz" he used neon violins in this number he uses what look to be neon hoolahoops!
On any level the film is a prime example of a director who just
doesn't no where to stop. This isn't a classic Hollywood musical
but it is top notch Hollywood Camp!