Rent In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
3.6 of 5 from 66 ratings
1h 39min
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- Synopsis:
"In The Good Old Summertime" - a tale of squabbling music-shop clerks who don't know they're romantic pen pals - shares a celebrated movie lineage that includes James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in 'The Shop Around the Corner' and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in 'You've Got Mail'. In between those two, Judy Garland and Van Johnson had mail plus Gold Old tunes evoking an era of straw-boaters and silver moons. Sparked by Garland's comedic zest and musical appeal, this confection is "one of the sweetest, most unpretentious entertainments of 1949". It's also a nostalgic farewell and a sunny hello. Buster Keaton appears in his final film for the studio he first joined in 1928. And Liza Minnelli, all of 18 months young, makes her debut in the finale. - Actors:
- Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, Buster Keaton, Marcia Van Dyke, Lillian Bronson, Bette Arlen, William Bailey, George Boyce, Chester Clute, Carli Elinor, Antonio Filauri, William Forrest, Everett Glass, Eula Guy, Eddie Jackson, Joi Lansing, Peggy Leon
- Directors:
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Producers:
- Joe Pasternak
- Writers:
- Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
- Aka:
- The Girl from Chicago / I Don't Care
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Music & Musicals, Romance
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Bookshop Scenes, Top 10 Films Set in Department Stores, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Unknown
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Introduction by Garland Biographer John Fricke Vintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks Shorts Chicago the Beautiful and Night Life in Chicago
- Theatrical Trailers
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Reviews (1) of In the Good Old Summertime
In The Good Old Summertime - In the Good Old Summertime review by LJ
You probably know this plot (work rivals who don't realise they are pen pals) as The Shop Around The Corner or You've Got Mail. Well, apparently there was a musical version in between, this time set in a music shop. If you haven’t seen The Shop Around The Corner then this is probably an enjoyable romcom. However, if you are familiar with the original, then you probably won't enjoy this remake because it feels like a cheap replica. Swathes of the dialogue is identical to the script of The Shop Around The Corner, but they cut most of the drama (no suicide plot any more), move around the plot so it doesn’t work as well and jam in a couple of irrelevant diegetic songs – they could at least have properly rewritten this as a musical, what we have here is a lazy in-between.
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