| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Dana Andrews |
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| Julie Andrews |
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| Rossano Brazzi |
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| Yul Brynner |
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| Jeanne Crain |
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| Mitzi Gaynor |
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| Shirley Jones |
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| Deborah Kerr |
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| Gordon MacRae |
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| Charles Winninger |
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| Fay Bainter |
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| Vivian Blaine |
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| Frank McHugh |
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| Dick Haymes |
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| Donald Meek |
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Musical |
| Director |
Walter Lang |
| Producer |
William Perlberg |
| Writer |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
| Studio |
20th Century Fox |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
NR (Not Rated) |
| Running Time |
118 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| "I've got that nice, tired old feeling," says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while Oklahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of Iowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem "All I Owe Iowa"? Still, it is R and H, and "It Might as Well Be Spring" is here as well as some other decent ditties. There's a country-mouse feeling as the Frake family journeys to the big city for the annual harvest celebration. Young daughter Margy (Jeanne Crain) has her eye on something more exciting than her bore of a fiancé, while her brother meets a lovely big-band singer with a secret. But the bucolic, Old Farmer's Almanac feel is genuine, and it's most obviously a picture of a bygone era when someone expostulates gleefully, "You're gonna be the wife of a journalist!" Not a "don't miss" but not a dismiss either. --Keith Simanton |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
838 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Links |
Amazon US
DVD Empire
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Single Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
086162108679 |
| Chapters |
28 |
| Release Date |
4/27/1999 |
| Subtitles |
English; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Scene Selection
Original Theatrical Trailer
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