Guys and Dolls (1955)

Directed by

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Genre

comedy film, crime film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 256 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This musical comedy centers on gambler Sky Masterson who makes a bet that he can take a devout missionary named Sarah Brown to Havana. Meanwhile, Nathan Detroit scrambles to find a location for his floating craps game while avoiding his long-suffering fiancee.

livelycharmingwittyromanticmusicalsnappyplayfulclassic

What happens

Guys and Dolls is a 1955 American musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine. The picture was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and released by MGM. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, which, in turn, was loosely based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon. Dances were choreographed by Michael Kidd, who had staged the dances for the Broadway production. The film opened on November 3, 1955, at the Capitol Theatre in New York City to critical and commercial success. As of September 2024, a remake of the film, directed, co-produced and co-written by Rob Marshall, was in pre-production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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