Anchors Aweigh - Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly [DVD] [1945]

Classic musical from Golden Age of Hollywood starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and the multi talented Gene Kelly who again shows why he along with Fred Astaire took dance and showed why they have never been beaten.Beautiful film that transports you back in time and of course who can forget when he danced with Jerry The Mouse which back then quite a feat considering the technology back then which is still iconic today.Must get if fan of old school Hollywood films.

Old style Family entertainment with amazing dance routines & singing 🎵🌟

Anchors Away is a 70 year old MGM musical famous for the pioneering mixed live action and cartoon sequence where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry the mouse from Tom and Jerry.I'm glad to report that the blu-ray is free of scratches. flickers and jumps and shows lots of the Technicolor three strip grain which the film would have had from day one, there's no evidence of excessive noise reduction.The restoration has been well worthwhile, but it's not of the same quality as the restoration of the Wizard Of Oz (older film). The film's worth having without ever being one of the all time greats,I suspect the restoration was budget limited in a way that 'The Wizard Of Oz' and 'An American In Paris' weren't. The mono soundtrack is good given the films vintage.

This film is a veritable cornucopia of music and dance for most of its 140 minutes. The story concerns two sailors (Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly) on leave in Los Angeles where they meet up with the lovely Kathryn Grayson as a budding classical singer. They rescue her young nephew when he goes walkabout in the city. She is keen to audition for Jose Iturbi (playing himself), who displays a gentle, laconic style in his responses to the comments of Chip (Sinatra) whom he is supposed to know but in fact has never before met. The plot is insubstantial but the music is lovely and the dances quite spectacular. In his Spanish dance, to the tune of La Cumparsita by Rodriguez, Kelly looks more like Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks as he hurtles acrobatically around the set. Kelly does a second Spanish dance with little Sharon McManus, but perhaps the most original dance is of Kelly with Jerry (of Tom and Jerry) to a Sammy Fain and Ralph Freed number called The Worry Song - a masterful bit of animation.

This is one of the best of Traditional Hollywood Musicals , singing, dancing, comedy. Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry Mouse. Need something lighthearted and uplifting, this is the movie for you.

love film

Boasting two top performers in their chosen genres - song and dance - with both able to cross over with apparent ease -this may not be a "top" film musical, but it is a showcase for great talent, with the added bonus of the lustrous studiocolour photography of the time and innocent nostalgia by the bucket load!

Nice old movie