Product Details

• Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame
• Directors: Richard Whorf
• Writers: Isobel Lennart, Jack McGowan
• Producers: Jack Cummings
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00143XDZG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,132 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "It Happened in Brooklyn" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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

Product Description

Jobs are scarce. Rooms to rent are scarcer. Times aren’t easy for returning GIs in the years after World War II. But falling in love, that’s easy. It Happened in Brooklyn. And it happens with Frank Sinatra (in a performance critically hailed as the best of his then-young screen career) starring as an ex-soldier and with a lot of humor and Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn songs. The Song’s Gotta Come from the Heart, one tune says and, with Sinatra mimicking Jimmy Durante as he socks it over with the affable "Schnozzola," it has enough heart to envelop all of Flatbush. Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford and Gloria Grahame help make the movie magic happen. And most magical of all is Sinatra’s silken delivery of a ballad forever linked with him afterward: Time After Time.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars greeeeaaaatt, October 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: It Happened in Brooklyn [VHS] (VHS Tape)

a must for any new yorker or sinatra fan. ps. great musical # by peter lawford

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sinatra Sings Mozart?, February 17, 2003

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Thomas H. Prindle "tprindle2" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It Happened in Brooklyn [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great film!, June 6, 2003

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Rosella Ann Myles - See all my reviews

This review is from: It Happened in Brooklyn [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film is great and a must see. Great for all Katheryn Grayson fans It's romantic funny and enjoyable to see each time. I highly recommend it.