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The Harvey Girls |  | Director: George Sidney
Actors: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
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Rating:  64 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: 65348
ISBN: 0790749521
UPC: 012569534827
EAN: 9780790749525
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1946
Release Date: April 30, 2001
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| • | Musical western about a mail order bride who ditches her bashful suitor and joins a group of women intent on opening a remote whistle stop restaurant.Running Time: 102 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN Rating: NR Age: 012569534827 UPC: 012569534827 Manufacturer No: 65348 |
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Product Description
The Harvey restaurant chain hires beautiful young girls to go west to work as waitresses along the Santa Fe railroad.
Genre: Musicals
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-APR-2002
Media Type: DVD
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Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form--except on one point. No viewer will question why "On the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe" won the best song Oscar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this wowser--even Marjorie Main sings, an eardrum-testing sound. The real-life Harvey Girls were waitresses imported to the far-flung Fred Harvey Hotels, civilizing oases along the railroad lines out west. The fictional Harvey Girls is set in Sandrock, where the traveling waitresses are joined by a sort of mail-order bride (Judy Garland) whose prospective husband is a bust--he's a roughhewn rancher played by Chill Wills. Garland is in fine spunky form; unfortunately, her romance is with John Hodiak (as the owner of a dance hall), that uninspiring World War II-era lead. The film's other great Johnny Mercer-Harry Warren song is the unexpectedly melancholy "It's a Great Big World," performed in a lovely trio by Garland, Virginia O'Brien, and the young Cyd Charisse. The tall, deadpan O'Brien also does a comic take on "The Wild, Wild West" while shoeing a horse. With kewpie-faced Angela Lansbury as a bespangled dance-hall gal and Ray Bolger high-stepping through a dance solo, there are enough good people on board to keep the wheels a-turning "all the way to Californ-eye-yay." --Robert Horton
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 64
 Good clean fun! March 11, 2010
S.F. DVD watcher (CA USA)
I read through some of the negative reviews and think there are some that take this movie way too seriously. It's suppose to be a fun musical and IMO it is!
Great singing, dancing, and a cute story line that has several funny moments. It's not suppose to be a documentary about the life of the Harvey Girls, it's suppose to be for fun. It's not trying to make any statements about women in the old west, it's just for entertainment. I thought it was fun and entertaining.
I'm a train fan and love the train scenes. I love the signature song for the movie, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe. The brilliant colors in almost every scene add to the positive atmosphere of the movie. And Judy Garland's voice! Wish I could have seen her live.
If you are a Judy Garland fan I think you will enjoy this movie. Is it her best movie? No, but I think it's still very good!
 Harvey Girls, good old fashioned fun. February 3, 2010
ricky d. flowers (poynor, TX, US)
The plot is a little creaky but the stars shine in this big budget musical. The highlight is a show-stopping production number on the Oscar winning Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
If you love Judy Garland! December 30, 2009
Clare E. Ziegler
I love this movie! I grew up watching musicals and this was one of them. If you are a Judy Garland fan you will love it!
The Harvey Girls December 28, 2009
Dreamer (Boston)
A bit dated but a total winner no matter how you slice it. This will never go out of style!
Classic November 1, 2009
Sam "Mayday" Malone (Rohan)
Most know Judy Garland as a singing sensation, but her comedic abilities are put on display to great effect in this film. The opening sequence where she sings on the train "as the evening sun goes down" is breathtaking. Granted the male lead isn't too great, the rest of the cast does well. My favorite line will always be:
"They call me Tex"
-"where are you from?"
"Massachusetts"
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