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...still traces the frantic efforts of Nathan Detroit the manager of "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York," to find a home for his business activities safe from annoying policemen. Detroit thinks his rent-money problem is solved when he bets one of his customers, Sky Masterson, that Sky cannot take a certain female missionary to Havana. But he only manages to start the romance which every musical must have...
Strangely enough, several of these characters lose part of their whiskey-soaked charm when they make the trip to Hollywood. Strangely, that is, because they are played by some of the best movie actors. Marlon Brando, as Sky Masterson, acts well enough, but his style seems cramped by the good manners the role requires. Moreover, he can not really sing. Frank Sinatra, however, who can, has fairly little opportunity, and his Nathan Detroit comes out much more sullen than worried. Only Vivian Blaine is at her best as a nightclub singer who has been engaged to Detroit for fourteen years...
...Angie the Ox are in their customary condition of p.m. panic. "The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" is about to sink. Its proprietor, one Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll (Jean Simmons) named Sarah Brown, from the Save-A-Soul Mission...
...costume historical with no artistic nonsense about it. Producer Darryl Zanuck claims that Brando turns in one of his greatest performances as Napoleon, but Marlon modestly doubts it. "Most of the time," he says. "I just let the make-up play the part." Marlon's next role, Sky Masterson in the film version of Guys and Dolls, will give him a chance to show how well he can warble and hoof, but it hardly brings him any closer to Hamlet. And after Hollywood, where can Brando go? Broadway? In the last 15 years the New York stage has sunk...
...Dodge City's Deputy Marshal Bat Masterson, who, the story goes, got up one morning on the wrong side of the bunk. He stepped outside, swaggered down the street, shot & killed the first man he met. His explanation: "I just felt like...