Brigadoon [Blu-ray]

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Overview

This adaptation of the Broadway musical stars Gene Kelly as an American tourist who stumbles upon an enchanted Scottish village. Kelly falls in love with village lass Cyd Charisse. Charisse's betrothed Hugh Laing, upset by Kelly's intervention, threatens to leave Brigadoon, an act that will spell doom for its residents.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/26/2017
UPC:	0888574474652
Original Release:	1954
Language:	English
Time:	1:48:00
Sales rank:	5,133

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gene Kelly	Tommy Albright
Cyd Charisse	Fiona Campbell
Van Johnson	Jeff Douglas
Barry Jones	Mr. Lundie
Elaine Stewart	Jane Ashton
Hugh Laing	Harry Beaton
Albert Sharpe	Andrew Campbell
Virginia Bosier	Jean Campbell
Jimmie Thompson	Charlie Crisholm Dalrymple,Charlie Crisholm Dalrymple
Tudor Owen	Archie Beaton
Owen McGivney	Angus
Dee Turnell	Ann
Dody Heath	Meg Brockie
Eddie Quillan	Sandy
Owen McGiveney	Angus
Madge Blake	Mrs. McIntosh
George Chakiris	Dancer
Warren MacGregor	Tinker
Stuart Whitman	New York Club Patron
Conrad Salinger	Composer
Johnny Green	Composer
Frederick Loewe	Composer

Technical Credits

Alan Jay Lerner

Arthur Freed	Producer
Alan Jay Lerner	Screenwriter
Wesley C. Miller	Sound Effects
Ralph George	Sound Effects
Warren Newcombe	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

By 1954, Hollywood's standard operating procedure toward Broadway musicals -- purchase the property and then discard most of the score -- had changed significantly. The studios had learned to be more respectful of stage musicals in the post-Oklahoma! era. Yet sometimes this respect seemed to stifle a director's creative juices somewhat, as witnessed by Vincente Minnelli and Brigadoon. Not that the film is in any way bad; it just isn't the emotional experience that it was on-stage and should have been on the silver screen. However, beyond the stiffness, there's a great deal to enjoy here. Gene Kelly is in typical fine form; if his self-described "Irish whiskey" voice is occasionally taxed by the fine Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe score, his dancing is as graceful, energetic, and self-assured as ever. Kelly also brings his familiar romantic sensuality to the proceedings, which his role definitely calls for. Cyd Charisse, arguably Kelly's best dancing partner, looks beautiful and moves divinely. When Kelly and Charisse are together for "The Heather on the Hill" and "Almost Like Being in Love," their body language convinces an audience that a man really might give up his entire world for a woman with whom he has spent less than 24 hours. Kelly's choreography, while not groundbreaking as Agnes DeMille's was for the play, is quite effective on its own terms. If Brigadoon is less than perfect, Minnelli, Lerner, and Loewe made up for it with their next joint project -- the classic Gigi.