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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543208464 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Languages: Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox MPN: D2230846D Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 15, 2005 Running Time: 218 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: August 29, 1945 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: "I've got that nice, tired old feeling," says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while Oklahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of Iowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem "All I Owe Iowa"? Still, it is R and H, and "It Might as Well Be Spring" is here as well as some other decent ditties. There's a country-mouse feeling as the Frake family journeys to the big city for the annual harvest celebration. Young daughter Margy (Jeanne Crain) has her eye on something more exciting than her bore of a fiancé, while her brother meets a lovely big-band singer with a secret. But the bucolic, Old Farmer's Almanac feel is genuine, and it's most obviously a picture of a bygone era when someone expostulates gleefully, "You're gonna be the wife of a journalist!" Not a "don't miss" but not a dismiss either. --Keith Simanton Description: Rodgers and Hammerstein's only score written expressly for the screen highlights this delightful film about an Iowa family's adventures at the fair. Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews and Dick Haymes star. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - State FairThis is one of my faves. Much superior to the re-make with Pat Boone and Ann-Margaret. This is sweet and the stars are just right. Dana Andrews, of "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "Laura" is a jaded reporter covering the Iowa State Fair and is smitten with this young, sweet farmer's daughter and it changes his life. There IS reason for hope. Jeanne Craine plays the young girl and is engaging. She was also in "Leave Her To Heaven" and "Laura" I believe. Good music with fine vocalists. Rating:  - Great film, but missing a great ancestorI wish that the first version of State Fair, from 1933, had been included here. It's currently unavailable on DVD, and really deserves to be more widely known. While it's not an R&H musical -- which I guess gave the '62 Pat Boone musical re-make an edge for inclusion here -- it's probably the most accurate screen production of the best-selling novel by Phil Stong. With Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, and Lew Ayres as the stars, and a very low-key, gentle sense of humor that brings out the warmth of ... Read More Rating:  - 1945--5; 1962--1Pairing the 1945 and 1962 versions of "State Fair," as this edition does, serves to accentuate how inferior the remake is. Plotwise, the story does not move; it just happens. Take, for example, Margy's love interest at the fair. With Pat, in 1945, we see the romance growing; and it is believable that he will come back for her. Sure, he was a cad in the beginning; but we see that change as to story progresses. In the 1962, Larry is a cad at the beginning clear through to the end. ... Read More Rating: - State Fair is fairAs much as I love Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals this one is not my favorite. I saw it a few years ago and bought it recently. I like the subtitles and the singalong. Also, in this dvd case, there are 2 movies: the 1945 version and the 1960 version. They are both good, but for me the first one is better and has the same "flavor" as the other musicals. The latest version is more upbeat and it loses some of its appeal (to me). If you love musicals, you'll watch this one for the sake of it's writers. ... Read More Rating:  - State Fair DVDDon't like it. Very slow. Can i return it once it has been opened? |
