KISMET
(M.G.M,-CinemaScope) ISMET has, you might say, everything. It was made by two of the brightest boys in the business-Arthur Freed was producer and Vincente Minnelli director. It has Howard Keel and Ann Blyth, Vic Damone and Dolores Gray, hit songs, some gigantic sets, and
(of course) the vicariously polygynous delights of the Baghdad harems. Logistically that is, I think, the word-it’s a tour de force. Olde Baghdad comes to life, beggars swarm, dervishes rotate, Howard Keel sings, Dolores Gray reciprocates, Miss Blyth and Master
% Damone play boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl-boy-finds-girl, yet in the end every--one manages to finish right on the beat. Speaking personally, I was pretty well dead beat by that time. Kismet is all very fine for those who,like their musicals on a grand scale; for myself I'd trade a dozen Kismets for one Singing in the Rain or On the Town. The best film musical is a musical specifically | designed for filming, not a super-colos--sal blow-up of a stage show. , But perhaps I’m just a chambermusical type after all.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 19
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170KISMET New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 19
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