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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 31719
Released: April 26, 2005 |
| Our Price: $5.93 |
| Used Price: $3.28 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A SUCCESSFUL JAZZ TRUMPETER'S WORLD CRUMBLES WHEN HE MARRIES ADESTRUCTIVE SOCIETY GIRL.FEATURES HARRY JAMES' MUSIC DUBBED OVER DOUGLAS' PLAYING.
Young Man With a Horn Reviews:
a romantic drama about music 
2009-09-20 - I think that the major thing wrong with this movie
is that it confuses people about jazz without giving them any idea
what jazz really is. The idea was to make a drama about a man
eaten up by his life in the jazz world.
I suppose that the "product" like Lust for Life
is more important than what people learn from it?
Don't be fooled: this movie has very little to do with real jazz
and the people who play it and love it.
The movie is a product made to sell movies starring popular actors.
There is actually some pretty good jazz from the 50's
and some big band tunes.
I liked the movie when I saw it as a kid, but now,
after actually learning about the music, the movie seem
really barren and empty.
great movie 
2009-04-18 -
This tape was one of the best tapes I ever ordered.
Beautiful music and a great story.
Not too many tapes can compare with this one.
Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall are brilliant!
2009-01-06 - This movie is loosely based on the life of trumpeter, Bix Biederbecke, who hailed from Davenport Iowa. He was a spirited trumpeter who died at the age of 27. Kirk Douglas is masterful in his performance and Doris Day and Lauren Bacall are in their glory days. The dialogue exchange between Bacall and Douglas was brilliant and commanding. Very entertaining!
THE MUSIC IS THE REAL STAR OF THIS FLICK!
2008-10-20 - Any film starring the great Kirk Douglas is usually good and often great. YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN is no exception. Douglas does an o.k. job portraying the pseudo Bix Beiderbecke character, Rick Martin, but he just can't mimic a trumpet player that well (lip positions,breathing, [...] etc.) The film follows a typical Hollywood mellodrama style, a guy struggling, succeeding, descending into personal demons and then rescue by a gal or a self realiztion. The real star of this film is the brilliant soundtrack by the incomparable Harry James with the equally brilliant Doris Day handling the vocals. I am now waiting for a good biofilm of Harry James as his life covered all the aspects of a rags to riches drama in addition to some of the best music ever recorded.
Four Star Music,Two Star Plot! 
2008-10-12 - Buy this for the music,and Doris Day.Then go out and the get the Soundtrack CD,which is out of print.Doris Day,and the trumpet of Harry James...........two of the best ever.
