Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

mark.waltz There have been many stage versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein's production of "Cinderella" over the years, even in New York City's opera, but it was well over fifty years for the show to make it to the great white way where it had a nice long run. Having seen all three TV productions, I had never seen the stage production, but fortunately got to see the recent production twice. Of course, I grew up watching the 1960's production, but other than stills and a cast album, knew little about this one.Then Broadway's "Fair Lady", Julie Andrews won millions of fans with her starring role in the original TV musical. She is perfect as Cinderella: sweet and perky, that youthful soprano quite right for Cinderella's desire to meet the handsome prince and escape from her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. They are hilariously played by Ilka Chase, Alice Ghostley and Kaye Ballard. Comic timing is everything, and they've all got it by the ton. Jon Cypher is a handsome prince, but he's not on as much as Stuart Damon was in the 1965 version. Ironically, that version starred Julie's future "Victor/Victoria" co- star Lesley Ann Warren.Edie Adams is a beautiful fairy godmother, with Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney having more footage as the king and queen. This has been gloriously restored, quite a difference than the kinescope version passed around by collectors prior to its official release. Rodgers and Hammerstein's score is equal to anything that they did on Broadway, although the story lacks the punch of their political themed musicals which mixed music, dance, drama and comedy. Add on a bunch of bonus features, as well as the introduction by the still gorgeous Julie Andrews, and you've got the perfect fairy tale that stands the test of time.

n_r_koch This obscure production includes some of the best songs the pair wrote, especially Hammerstein (who was freed here from the need to write in the bogus "folk" dialect of his best-known work). The show was written with Julie Andrews in mind and she sings the songs beautifully here. Although the musical was shot and broadcast in color, the recording is in B&W (how most Americans in 1957 would have seen it, too). The decor looks more like that of a high-school play and the whole setting is pretty claustrophobic, but this doesn't detract from the enjoyment. What's fun about the show, apart from the good songs, is watching the nervous excitement of these players who knew they were doing a live show-- and doing it in close-up, no less-- in front of 100m. This unpretentious (for R&H) charming show is still the best of the animated and TV Cinderellas. The backstory video (on the DVD) is also interesting.

joseph952001 I was around when there was no televisions in the homes and you had to go to the movie theaters to see movement on a screen, in fact, a very large screen we thought until Cinerama came into our lives. Everything was live. There was no filming for perfection and the first person to come up with the idea of filming live programs was Desi Arnaz when they started "I Love Lucy" on television, but I'm getting ahead of myself.Think of it! Every week, Sid Ceasar and Imogene Coca and others were rehearsing for a one and a half hour variety program called "Your Show of Shows" and even during the live T.V. Show, they made such mistakes that made the show funnier than if it was filmed. "Your Hit Parade" was live ever week. Snooky Lansen once had the hit song of the week and had a problem remembering lyrics and one time wrote them on the floor of the studio in chalk and when it come time to sing the song, someone had erased the lyrics! Ah, the days of live television! Then came along Rogers and Hammerstiens "Cinderella" in which they starred their new found personality Julie Andrews who was wowing Broadway in "My Fair Lady". So, they got the right cast together and put of a live musical version of Cinderella with wonderful music and Edie Adams camping it up as the Fairy Godmother when Cindereall, Julie Andrews, claims to Adams, "Oh! Fairy Godmother; what a beautiful dress!" and Adams with disdain in her voice says, "Oh! This old thing! It's 550 years old!" For years, it was rumored that they could never show the old Kinsoscope copy of Cinderella is because it was either destroyed of lost. After seeing all the talent in the show, it would have paid a lot of royalties out, but no more since most of them have passed away, so why not release it on D.V.D.? One thing about years later is that both Julie Andrews and Leslie Ann Warren played Cinderella on T.V. and they both starred together in "Victor Victoria" with Andrews playing a woman playing a man playing a woman and Warren playing a Chicogo Mobsters Whore! YOu must admit they both went from Saints to Sinners through the years.Thank God for the restoration of this wonderful show, and, of course, the original record album, always available, and now on C.D. can still be heard in it's original recording by Columbia! Wonderful show! Let the young'ins see what the fun of live T.V. was like in the golden age of television!

ciocio-2 I sincerely hope that many parents and other grownups will share this wonderful, witty musical with their kiddos and kiddo friends. Start them early with quality fare like this, and don't let them develop a prejudice against black & white viewing, or intelligent creations.It really is a shame that later television CINDERELLAs messed with the script, and particularly that they cut the ball- and banquet-planning scene with the King, Queen, Chef, Tailor and...I forget who else. The King and Queen are such stronger roles here than in the later versions. Actually, all the roles seem stronger here, as directed and played. (I don't mean to bash the later two TV CINDERELLAs, both of which have their good points, and good intentions, but end up falling so short of the original, for all their larger budgets, full color, more ethnically diverse casting--the last a plus in my book. A shame they didn't stick with the many strengths of this original script, and build and embellish from there. It also helps to have a Cinderella with a gorgeous, majestic voice.) Besides the wit, humor and intelligence of this musical's book, the big, winning ingredient is the basic sense of love and good will, strong but not cloying. A very Hammerstein element, which, for the most part, he wielded deftly throughout his works. There is an unfortunate tendency to screw with that strong ingredient when people try to adapt and "improve" Rodgers & Hammerstein shows. For a particularly heinous example of this, see the ABC TV, Glenn Close SOUTH PACIFIC. Better yet, don't subject yourself to that horrible desecration of a beautiful work. Watch the good stuff, like this original Cinderella.