Carousel Movie Review 1956

Much-loved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical based on Ferenc Molnar's play "Liliom" (filmed by Fritz Lang in 1935) about a swaggering carnival barker (MacRae) who tries to change his life after he falls in love with a good woman. Killed while attempting to foil a robbery he was supposed to help commit, he begs his heavenly hosts for the chance to return to the mortal realm just long enough to set things straight with his teenage daughter. Now indisputably a classic, the film lost $2 million when it was released.

Distribution

Home Vision Cinema, c/o Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste. 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, URL: http://www.homevision.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 128 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Musical Fantasy, Carnivals & Circuses, Heaven Sent, Death & the Afterlife, Plays to Film: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Dads

Screenplay

Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron

Cast

Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Lockhart, Barbara Ruick, Robert Rounseville, Richard Deacon, Tor Johnson

Cinematography

Charles Clarke

Director

Henry King

Music

Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein

Producer

20th Century-Fox