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Carousel (1956)

Music | 128 minutes
2,99 38 votes

Genre: Music / Romance

Duration: 128 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Henry King

Stars: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones and Cameron Mitchell

IMDb score: 6,5 (7.217)

Releasedate: 16 February 1956

Carousel plot

"More than your eyes have ever seen!"

Rodgers & Hammerstein musical about Billy Bigelow, a hobo and lounger who works at the carnival at the carousel. When he meets Julie he seems to calm down; they get married and Julie becomes pregnant. However, when Billy is fired, he commits a robbery to get money for his family, but he is killed. Years later, he is allowed to come back to earth from heaven one day to set a number of things right for his wife and daughter that he has never seen.

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BBarbie

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Mug is absolutely right with his comment about the boring songs in this film, which are also performed without any charisma. Actually, the Carousel Waltz, which everyone knows from fairgrounds, is the only song that is a bit pleasant to the ear. And of course the well-known “You'll Never Walk Alone”. But anyone who knows the performance of Gerry & The Pacemakers will shrug his shoulders at that too.

As a fan of (film) musicals, I am very disappointed in this Rodgers & Hammerstein production. All the more so because the story doesn't amount to much either.

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Movsin

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Not the very best musical and although besides the music, real love is of paramount importance, it is actually a bit sad.

I thought the acting was good, on a level that fits in musicals from that time, but the most fun comes from the songs.

In addition to the "You'll never walk alone" that has meanwhile been broken by billions of football fans (R & H may have turned in their graves just as many times), there is also the beautifully romantic "If I loved You", the exuberant "June is bustin' out all over" and the beautiful lyrics of "Soliloquy".

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Roger Thornhill

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Actually surprisingly dark theme for a Broadway-Hollywood musical: the main character is a rather unsympathetic man with loose hands who is also no longer among the living, and in the course of the story crime, seduction, suspicion and haughtiness are almost permanent on the lurk. And Gordon MacRae had already earned his spurs with Oklahoma, but his appearance in this role is too meaningless to provide a sympathy with the viewer that intended protagonist Frank Sinatra might have been able to deliver. As a result, the film falls somewhat dead, although there are quite a few compensations, such as beautiful camera work (those shots of the sailing boats on the water!), the exuberant scene with waitresses from a fish restaurant and various sailors who together June is bustin' out all over singing and dancing, the ballet at the end of Billy's daughter (Susan Luckey) and the fairground boy (Jacques d'Amboise), and Gene Lockhart's fun role as the "Starkeeper", the administrator of the afterlife. Too bad the sky doesn't look very inventive, with that faint sky-blue background with Plexiglas stars - you'd say they must have known what to do with the possibilities that idea offered there in the Droomfabriek.

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