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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 2 EAN: 9780783237381 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 0783237383 Label: Universal Studios Languages: Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 09, 2001 Running Time: 228 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: 1944 Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: Going My Way This irresistible Oscar winner from writer-director Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember) stars Bing Crosby as a low-key, crooning priest who joins the parish of a no-nonsense but sweet old Irish man of the cloth (Barry Fitzgerald). While Bing turns local toughs into a choir, the elder priest worries over the church building fund and whether he'll get a chance to see his old mother back in Ireland before she dies. One would have to have a heart of stone not to be won over by this charmer, with a lovely ending guaranteed to make you bawl for a week. --Tom Keogh Holiday Inn This perennial, Christmas-season favorite from 1942 teamed Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as entertainers (and rival suitors of Marjorie Reynolds) running an inn that is only open on holidays. It's a great excuse for lots of singing and dancing, seamlessly wrapped in a catchy story, and Astaire's frequent director Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Shall We Dance) doesn't let us down. The Irving Berlin numbers (each one connected to a different holiday) are winners, with Crosby's warm performance of "White Christmas" a movie touchstone. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Bing Crosby classicsThe DVD's have not been opened yet as they are Christmas gifts. I rate them highly because their condition looks fine and we love the stories and with the modern digital improvements we look forward to fine viewing. Rating: - delivered as promisedWatching "Going My Way" was a holiday tradition for my husband. When we lost our old VHS copy to a flooded basement, I thought it was over. But I was able to order the DVD from you on 12/17 and have it in time for Christmas. Thanks for the great service. Rating: - Bing Crosby Double FeatureConceived from an idea by composer Irving Berlin, Mark Sandrich's "Holiday Inn" is a humorous, festive Crosby/Astaire musical that finds both performers in tip-top, toe-tapping form. Famous for introducing "White Christmas," the best-selling single of all time and an instant favorite with troops overseas, "Inn" is consistently tuneful and entertaining with a sublime Berlin score that covers not just Christmas, but all major holidays. Watch for the July 4th rave-up "Let's Say It With Firecrackers," ... Read More Rating: - A true Christmas GemGoing My Way deservedly won 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Story. It is such a warm story written and directed by Leo McCarey (who also wrote Love Affair, Bells of St. Mary's and An Affair to Remember as well as directed the latter two). The movie's warmth owed much to the wonderful performance of Barry Fitzgerald (Best Actor in a Supporting Role), as the lovable and respectable elderly Father Fitzgibbon, despite his old school ... Read More Rating:  - Old-fashioned sentimentality at its best(GOING MY WAY reviewed as a single feature on videocassette.) We are in an entertainment age of rampant violence, language, and sexuality. On a recent Monday, I watched two tapes worth of HBO shows. I could actually feel my soul corroding from violence in the admittedly well acted THE SOPRANOS, very strong language in the beautifully designed DEADWOOD, and sex scenes with full nudity in the new BIG LOVE. They make me want to cancel my subscription to HBO and go back to bygone Hollywood ... Read More |
