Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3368 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-07-26
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
• Dubbed in: French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 142 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
After several years as the hottest musical director on Broadway, Bob Fosse made his film directorial debut with this movie version of his Broadway hit, which was based on Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. Shirley MacLaine is terrific as the proverbial hooker with the heart of gold, one who is convinced that she will find the right man if she just turns enough tricks. The Cy Coleman score is a solid one; the film is at its best when Fosse lets his cast of singer-dancers (which includes Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, and Sammy Davis Jr) unleash his leggy brand of choreography. While the film suffers from stylistic excesses of the period, you can see the seeds being planted for Fosse's future musical film forays in Cabaret and All That Jazz. --Marshall Fine

Synopsis
A musical version of Neil Simon's Broadway hit with Shirley Maclaine in the title role of a dance-hall hostess who dreams of old-fashioned romance but gives her heart to undeserving men.

Customer Reviews

Shirley Maclain still amuses
Who doesn't know the song 'Big Spender'?

Still one of Shirley's best movies, pity the soundtrack during dialogue is a bit muffled it could have done with the treatment they've given to the music

a classic!
Sweet Charity is a classic film - it really is. Shirley MacLaine plays naive "Charity" - Dear Sweet Charity - always looking for love - and always falling for Mr Wrong! I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at the bridge scene. Shirley sits on the bridge with the love of her life, singing to him she had drawn out every last cent she owned and she would share it with him because she loves him that much! She continues singing we should thrown something "for luck" into the river - (don't forget she is sitting on the bridge) At this point you just have to covered your face - you can see what's coming! But Shirley never gives up hope - I think that could be the message of the film - she never allows life to dent her spirits for long. Watch the film and you'll see. The film has energy, amusement value and the chorography is just second to none in my opinion. One of my definite all time favorites - I loved it when I was a child - I love it more as an adult! - brilliant.

Sweet Charity - Visually excllent - soundtrack poor.
Shirley Mclaine gives a brilliant and vital performance as Sweet Charity. The dance sequences and choreography show Bob Fosse's genius to the full in this, his first film and an excellent foretaste of his future work. The film was marred by a poor soundtrack with bad mixing between narration and music. The speech is muffled and divorced from the music and ambient sound.
Also having the English and French audio only in stereo with the other languages in surround seemed a strange decision

David Turner