The Five Pennies (1959)
The Five Pennies (1959)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 16:9 | 720x480 | 7500 kbps | 7.2Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 6.0 @ 448 Kbps, #2 English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
01:57:00 | USA | Biography, Drama, Music
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 16:9 | 720x480 | 7500 kbps | 7.2Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 6.0 @ 448 Kbps, #2 English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
01:57:00 | USA | Biography, Drama, Music
Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out.
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cast: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Bobby Troup, Susan Gordon, Tuesday Weld, Ray Anthony, Shelly Manne, Ray Daley, Valerie Allen, Eric Alden, Babette Bain, Bill Baldwin, Sheryn Banks, Earl Barton, Henry Beau, Francesca Bellini, John Benson, Alexander Campbell, Cindy Carol, Ira Cook, Evelyn Cotton, Gabriel Curtiz, Paul Francis DeRolf, Lynn Fields, Ned Glass, Don Gray, Norman Lee Harris
The Five Pennies (1959)
The Five Pennies (1959)
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Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out.
~ Ray Hamel
The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders who would play with Nichols' "Five Pennies," and details his self-destructive streak and (seeming) inability to conform to changing musical tastes. Weaving in and out of the main story is a sentimental subplot concerning Nichols' physically impaired daughter Dorothy, played by Susan Gordon as a child and by Tuesday Weld (in her movie debut) as a young woman. Nichols's long-suffering wife is portrayed by Barbara Bel Geddes. The storyline occasionally lapses into sappiness and the ending is almost impossibly lachrymose, but the musical highlights save the day. Especially memorable is Danny Kaye's duet with Louis Armstrong. Among the real-life musicians who grace the supporting cast of The Five Pennies are Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony, Shelly Manne, and, as Jimmy Dorsey, Bobby Troup.
The Five Pennies (1959)
The Five Pennies (1959)
The Five Pennies (1959)
