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Actors: Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, Marlon Brando, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye, B.S. Pulley, Johnny Silver, Sheldon Leonard
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Guys and Dolls |
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Guys and Dolls has a lot of romance. It also has a lot of singing and dancing. It's by far one of the better musicals I've ever seen.
--Diane Pickard, Resident Scholar
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With Inspector Brannigan hot on his trail, gambler Nathan Detroit is having a hard time finding a suitable locale for his crap game. In the meantime, bigshot Sky Masterson has a hard time finding a doll to take to Havana. So happens that Miss Sarah Brown is finding it equally difficult to find some lost sinners to come to her save-a-soul mission on Broadway. Somehow their paths cross in this hilarious, toe-tapping musical based on Damon Runyan's characters.
--Dave Kernick, Resident Scholar
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Nathan Detroit needs $1000 to set up the big anticipated crap game. He bets Sky Masterson that he can't get mission worker Sarah Brown to Havana with him. Meanwhile Miss Brown needs sinners to come to her poorly performing mission, and Miss Adelaide, a hypochondriac, wants Nathan to marry her. Also, there's always the cop. Wonderful Frank Loesser score, Frank Sinatra singing, and Marlon Brando doing "Luck be a Lady Tonight..."
--Zorikh Lequidre, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Guys and Dolls |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- seduction (yum!)
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
If a parody... of
- gangsters/crime
Lover is...
- of a different social class
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- gambler
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- The Caribbean
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
- theater
- bar
Style
Any profanity?
- None
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing and dancing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Broadway musical
Is this movie based on a
- play
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