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Title: what a classic...!!
Review: There are a handful of films that I recall from my youth that I loved. There are fewer that somehow, through time, hold up even though they are dated in so many ways you cannot count them. These few are to me what great story-telling is all about, and what great film-making is all about as well.Someone in an earlier review commented that this release was bare bones. What does that mean? No bonus features? Who gives a hoot. This movie is fantastic in and of itself and it needs no condiments.Danny Kaye plays one of his finest roles ever as a coronet playing family man. He not being funny in this one. He's being darn good and it comes through loud and clear. In that classic style of "tear tugging" he riffs this role perfectly, and the film's finale is a mind-blower indeed.If afternoon entertainment with some popcorn is your game, play the five pennies. It'll take you back in time for a nice old fashioned ride, inclusive of great music.
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