Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300269569 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300269566 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 01, 1992 Running Time: 101 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 04, 1953 Sales Rank: 2369
Amazon.com essential video: This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the title role, as a wild cowgal who can outshoot and outsing any boy on the range. When an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), Jane tries to mend her tomboy ways. Not exactly up to the feminist code of honor, this is still energetic and Day is very perky. Of course, one could almost detect a homosexual undercurrent with the cross-dressing Jane, but this was Hollywood in the 1950s, so we best not. This won an Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love," by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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Rating: - Family Movie Night!
Pop the popcorn, open the chips, get the drinks and have a great family movie night. Everyone will be singing the songs for weeks. Enjoy!
Rating: - Top-notch Doris Day musical
"Calamity Jane" is a wonderful film, made three years after the similarly plotted "Annie Get Your Gun." "Calamity Jane," however, is by far the superior film. Doris Day is perfect in the role of the ... Read More
Rating: - dvd
received but not watched, bought as gift, every expection it is in fine condition, looks never opened.
Rating: - Wonderful, I love this movie & was able to enjoy right away.
I received my movie right away and able to finally ad this movie to my collection and it was in great shape. Thank you.
Rating: - Great songs, fun plot
A must have for anyone who likes musicals. Doris Day makes a great Calam, both before and after her makeover, and Howard Keel is his usual, slightly misogenistic but charming self. Lots of great songs, ... Read More
- Great songs, fun plot