Reveille With Beverly

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Denny S A fine presentation of what wartime entertainment looked and sounded like during World War II. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/26/24 Full Review Audience Member Cute film directed by one of the more frequent Abbott and Costello film directors, Charles Barton. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Flyaway story but great musical interludes. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member good WWII musical to help the audiences 4get about the war raging on.now in modern times the reason to watch are performances by count basie duke ellington, frank sinatra and one of parents' faves the mills brothers. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Columbia was still using this basic musical formula even in its rock n roll movies; shoot popular music acts performing some numbers and have another unit film a story that no one cares about to hold the musical numbers together. Sometimes the musicians get minor roles in the story, but not in "Reveille with Beverly;" however we do care about Ann Miller, who seldom looked lovelier than here and plays her part as aspiring young record store employee turned hep DJ loved by GIs with such energy and enthusiasm you almost forgive the film for being as cheap and silly as it is. However, most of the musical numbers are well-filmed, featuring frontline perfomers in key pieces -- Count Basie in "One O'Clock Jump," Duke Ellington in "Take the A Train," Ella Mae Morse with Freddie Slack in "Cow Cow Boogie" etc. While this wasn't Frank Sinatra's first film appearance, it was his first screen credit and remains a ridiculously early peep at the Chairman. Franklyn Pangborn makes a decent comic turn as a hopelessly stuffy, hypochodriacal classical DJ; otherwise, when Miller isn't onscreen and the tunes aren't spinnin' this is pretty wooden. Also, something is wrong with the arrangement of "Big Noise from Winnetka" played by Bob Crosby; other than the drumstick/bass duet performed by Bob Haggart and Ray Baduc -- which we do get to see here -- the rest of the song is performed weirdly downtempo, and the whistling part makes no sense at such speed. Given the rather Slack groove laid down by Mr. Slack and Ella Mar Morse, there seems to have been a concern not to get too much of a Boogie Woogie feel into the picture. I guess Columbia thought GIs didn't like Boogie Woogie, and Ann Miller doesn't get to dance until the very end of the feature, almost as though they forgot that the star of the picture was --uh-- a good dancer also. Worth it for the musical numbers and Ann Miller and at one time thought emblematic of vapid, escapist Wartime entertainment -- actually, it's a little better than that would suggest Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm starting to really really love Ann Miller, especially her pre-"On The Town" work. The movie is nothing more than an excuse to show Count Basie, Bob Crosby, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra perform "specialty numbers," as well as a bit of pro-war propaganda at the end, but it's definitely worth watching. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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