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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Turner Home Ent
Salesrank: 1438
Released: April 30, 2001 |
| Our Price: $5.47 |
| Used Price: $9.95 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Closed-captioned Color DVD Full Screen Subtitled NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Musical western about a mail order bride who ditches her bashful suitor and joins a group of women intent on opening a remote whistle stop restaurant.
Description of The Harvey Girls:
Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form--except on one point. No viewer will question why "On the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe" won the best song Oscar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this wowser--even Marjorie Main sings, an eardrum-testing sound. The real-life Harvey Girls were waitresses imported to the far-flung Fred Harvey Hotels, civilizing oases along the railroad lines out west. The fictional Harvey Girls is set in Sandrock, where the traveling waitresses are joined by a sort of mail-order bride (Judy Garland) whose prospective husband is a bust--he's a roughhewn rancher played by Chill Wills. Garland is in fine spunky form; unfortunately, her romance is with John Hodiak (as the owner of a dance hall), that uninspiring World War II-era lead. The film's other great Johnny Mercer-Harry Warren song is the unexpectedly melancholy "It's a Great Big World," performed in a lovely trio by Garland, Virginia O'Brien, and the young Cyd Charisse. The tall, deadpan O'Brien also does a comic take on "The Wild, Wild West" while shoeing a horse. With kewpie-faced Angela Lansbury as a bespangled dance-hall gal and Ray Bolger high-stepping through a dance solo, there are enough good people on board to keep the wheels a-turning "all the way to Californ-eye-yay." --Robert Horton
The Harvey Girls Reviews:
Classic 
2009-11-01 - Most know Judy Garland as a singing sensation, but her comedic abilities are put on display to great effect in this film. The opening sequence where she sings on the train "as the evening sun goes down" is breathtaking. Granted the male lead isn't too great, the rest of the cast does well. My favorite line will always be:
"They call me Tex"
-"where are you from?"
"Massachusetts"
From The Golden Age Of Movies
2009-10-17 - A great old movie from the golden years of movie making. 100's of people choreographed in dance scenes. Something not done anymore. They don't make movies like this anymore.
Movie I loved as a girl
2009-09-04 - You hear the saying,"they don't make movies like this anymore", well, they don't! I loved this movie as a young girl and watching it again reminded me why. Firstly, the actors...of course Judy Garland but,come on, Angela Lansbury as a young woman...what a beauty! Great songs, beautiful costumes and a good,clean story. My teenage kids caught some of it as I was watching and poked relentess fun at it, BUT they sure stayed in the room until it was over!!
If you love old movies and haven't seen this, it's a must to add to your list. You can't go wrong with the "Harvey Girls".
Awesome video
2009-05-15 - I absolutely love this movie and I was very impressed with how fast it arrived as well.
Harvey Girls
2009-04-17 - Received DVD in good condition and with fast delivery. It is an old picture but I have always enjoyed it. Many good stars were in the picture and good songs.
