Thursday, October 30, 2008

#78. Pal Joey (1957)


Director: George Sidney
Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley (Based on the musical play by John O'Hara)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, Barbra Nichols, Bobby Sherwood, Hank Henry, Elizabeth Patterson

Quote: "What about my billing? I mean my picture!"

Sweet and sentimental, and featuring an absolutely amazing soundtrack with songs like "The Lady is a Tramp", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" and "I Could Write a Book", we follow Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra) a nightclub singer who tries to settle into a new town after being kicked out of his old one for seducing the governors daughter. But Joey finally gets his karma when he needs to choose between a sweet, poor chorus girl, Linda (Kim Novak), whom he has fallen in love with, or Vera Simpson (Rita Hayworth), a socialite who is fulfilling all of Joey's dreams of owning a night club of his very own.

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