Product Details

• Actors: Dorothy Abbott, Joey Bishop, Madge Blake, Dennis Crosby, Lindsay Crosby
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Studio: United Artists
• DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008
• Run Time: 113 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00158K0RE
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,691 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Lurking inside this 1962 Rat Pack movie is a true film classic: 1939's buoyant Kipling adventure, Gunga Din. The plotline's about the same, but the action in Sergeants 3 is transferred from colonial India to the Old West. Our three roistering Army buddies are played by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Peter Lawford, who are assigned a tense scouting mission just about the time Lawford is ready to quit the service in favor of--horrors--marriage. Sammy Davis, Jr., assumes the Gunga Din role, as a freed slave who tags along after the sergeants in hopes of joining the Army. (Yes, he blows a bugle.) Less successfully transferred than this outline is the way the cult from Gunga Din becomes a bloodthirsty tribe of Ghost Dancers in Sergeants Three, a bit of fudged movie history that will have to be taken with a grain of salt. But it's about as believable as everything else in this movie, right down to the fake beards on the cowpokes in the opening saloon brawl. Director John Sturges, who made this movie between his commercial high points of The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, apparently had little interest in making the interiors look like anything but studio sets. The exteriors fare much better, as many were shot in Utah's Bryce Canyon. The actors look as disengaged from this material as Sturges, with oomph sneaking in only when the boys are teasing each other (notably a sequence in which stuffy officer Joey Bishop--yes, he's in here too--is tricked into swallowing a laxative). It's all pretty flat, lending credence to the idea that the movie's long delay in securing a DVD release had less to do with racial insensitivity than with sheer lameness. --Robert Horton

Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sergeants 3 - Finally!!, March 16, 2008

By	Andrea Kim Fuller "kimmmmmy" (Dillsburg, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

FINALLY the long awaited release of the 'lost' rat pack movie!! Yeah! As a life long Dean Martin fans who has about 20 bad dubs of this, i'm psyched to see it finally commercially released!!
Not only is Dean totally CUTE in both dress and casual uniform, he has a great part in this one. I suppose it took so long because of the racial overtones, but racism WAS a part of our history, whether we like it or not and Dean is kinda the good guy here.
And it's pretty well known that the Rat Pack was instrumental (pun - get it!) in helping blacks start gaining equality in Las Vegas...
It's not a serious piece, or a western drama. It's silly, full of in jokes, a total guy movie. The history of the Ghost Dancer Indians is completely wrong and not even close to real history, but the Indians were often the bad guys back then (another racial problem with the movie - but hey - it's the 1960's and it's the Rat Pack...deal with it)...

In short, the guys are great and seem to be having a blast, despite the fact that Lawford is still amongst them (tho not for long)...

And, like i said, Dean is TOTALLY cute in it. So relax, have a beer, and enjoy it for what it is...

kimmmmy
and dover, the wonder dog

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You need to see it, May 16, 2008

By	Vincent T. Lynch "vtl" (Falls Church, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Yes, you need to see this "Rat Pack" film that disappeared for so many long years. It was the one film of Dino's that I had never seen, so like many other fans, I looked forward to it! The film has some really fine action scenes and some top notch scenery (Bryce Canyon National Park), and the transfer here is crisp and colorful. Dean and Frank are clearly the stars here, and they do just fine. The shortcoming of the film, from my perspective, is that it can't quite seem to figure out whether it is a serious drama or a comedy. Nevertheless, I do recommend it. It's not "Rio Bravo", but it is fun.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At last, July 18, 2008

By	J. M. Waaijer (Rotterdam/netherlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I saw this film the first time when I was about 20 years old. Friends asked me to join them going to this movie. When I asked what kind of movie we were going , they answered that it was with frank sinatra, dean martin and sammy davis. Oh my god I thought, it wil be a singing or some kind of musicalfilm. Not my kind of film. But they convinced me to go.
What a movie !!!! Since that time I saw it about 5 times in the movietheaters.When the internet came into our lives I started a search and finally at least, after more than many, many years a hit at amazon.
It made me very happy now that it is on dvd. I wil show this film to every one and hope that everybody wil feel the same kind of exitement I felt in those days.
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