Excellent DVD. Would be better if the main focus was not the Kennedy election. Overall, I would buy it again.
Good except for The Peter Lawford Bashing Casino Worker!
I like the Rat Pack and I like this doccumentary about Las Vegas during it's Rat pack hey day and I loved the history details of old las Vegas. My only complaint is the whiney casino worker who kept complaining about Peter Lawford just because he asked for a certain brand of cigarettes. I mean was it really necessary to trash a man no longer around to defend himself and all because he asked for a different brand of cigarettes? That part was useless and mean spirited so I have to take points off or that! At least I think this is the doccumentary with the Peter Lawford basing casino worker but I could be wrong and if it is another doccumentary then someone correct me if I'm mistaken!
No no no. This is a big, long ad for Las Vegas.
If I knew this thing was produced by the Travel Channel, I never woulda bought it. It's just another Travel Channel advertisement for Las Vegas. And it's filled with interviews of Rat Pack impersonators, for crying out loud.
You're much better off picking up the 2-disc Rat Pack DVD produced by the History Channel. That documentary is much more thorough, contains many more interviews with people who knew the Pack intimately (Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, etc.) and, by the way, is a few bucks cheaper! Stay away from this piece discount bin piece of trash.
Leave it to the Chairman of the Board to rope in a great director for the first Rat Pack movie. Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) indeed directed this 1960 caper movie starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop; but the results now seem like more of a historical artifact than a good time. The tone of the film is curiously serious--one somehow expected that the Rat Pack would have made a more buoyant first picture. But it is something to see these guys together, if largely for nostalgia reasons. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Frank Sinatra - Dean Martin Director(s): Lewis Milestone DVD Release Date: Released the 08 January 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Very good DVD to find out about The Rat Pack. I have been looking for something that brings me back to that era, and this is the closest. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Frank Sinatra DVD Release Date: Released the 30 July 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Hey, chicky baby--it's a cuckoo thing, ya dig? You, too, will find yourself speaking Rat Pack lingo after watching this made-for-HBO biopic about that brief and shining moment when Camelot met Hoboken-on-the-Pacific. The film does a good job of capturing the heady, anything-goes feel of the late-1950s, early-1960s era when Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and their running buddies ruled Hollywood, Las Vegas, and, it seemed, the world. The story centers on Sinatra's relationship with John F. Kennedy (William F. Petersen) before and after he was elected president. It's not particularly flattering to either man, as Sinatra pimps Kennedy into a relationship with Judith Campbell, at the same time she was the favorite consort of mob boss Sam Giancana. Ray Liotta is a forceful Sinatra... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ray Liotta - Joe Mantegna Director(s): Rob Cohen DVD Release Date: Released the 06 November 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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As a young fan(21) of Frank, Dino and Sammy, I loved this buy. It goes through the whole careers of each star on an easy to follow timeline. It also provides interesting facts from the friends of the great entertainment superstars. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Collector's Choice DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships within 2 to 5 weeks
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