The Glenn Miller Story
June 2, 2010 | Posted by admin 
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James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller’s life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the feel-good Hollywood biopic, with the usual conventions: early struggles, loyal wife (June Allyson at her chirpiest), personal sacrifice–Miller joins the Army when war breaks out, although he doesn’t have to–and ultimate tragedy. All the Glenn Miller classics filling the soundtrack make the film pretty easy to take, too: “Moonlight Serenade,” “A String of Pearls,” “Chattanooga Choo-Choo.” Miller plays the great “In the Mood” with his military band during a World War II air-raid warning. Pure corn, but it works. Director Anthony Mann, better known for his superb series of hard-bitten fifties westerns with Stewart, keeps the story moving gently and gracefully. A hot jazz interlude features Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa. –Robert Horton
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A really bad movie. Jimmy Stewart plays a very inconsiderate guy who calls his girlfriend once in two years and doesnt tell her when he’s showing up, ends up there in the middle of the night. Every step of the way he acts inconsiderately. The script is corny and bad. Nostalgia be damned, you have to give me a good movie. This is hard to sit through. Utter nonsense.
Rating: 1 / 5
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Rating: 1 / 5
Leave it to Hollywood in the 50s to make a hysterical “tribute” to a musical legend. James Stewart tries hard to enact the rather bland looking Glenn Miller but he also has to share screen time with perky, understanding, boring June Allyson. Since I’ve been obsessed with the two Miller movies he made: “Sun Valley Serenade” and “Orchestra Wives” I was hoping there’s be at least a fairly realistic segment of Glenn Miller’s Hollywood experience. There’s nothing. You see the Miller Orchestra playing along to an African native dance! The real-life Miller musicals are routine in story line but they have a fabulous, electrifying quality in the big show-stopping numbers like “Chatanooga Choo-Choo” and “Kalamazoo”, as sung by the Modernaires. The hair styles and fashions are all transformed into quasi-40s and 50s. You do see a few of the real-life Modernaires and Francis Langford perform “Chatanooga Choo-Choo” but it sounds horrible. I was hoping they could use more real-life personalities than the obviously Hollywood types you see. I was hoping especially to see the incredible blonde bombshell, Marion Hutton, do her “Kalamazoo” singing but she was nowhere to be found. After watching this botched nightmare, I went straight back to watch my thread-bare VHS copies of “Sun Valley Serenade” and “Orchestra Wives” and felt like there really is a God. But certainly not in “The Glenn Miller Story.”
Rating: 1 / 5
DVD received on ime and in good codition.Played well. Very saTISFIED.
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5 STAR.
Rating: 2 / 5
Product was New Item as ordered. Movie remains an excellent adaptation of the Big Band Master’s Life
Rating: 4 / 5