Annie Get Your Gun

Pros: Hutton, funny and entertaining, a couple of great songs...
Cons: ... some very unmemorable songs, scenes that suffer from being too slow

Annie Get Your Gun is the film the seemed like it would never get made. Star Judy Garland dropped out of the picture allegedly due to exhaustion (or was she booted out? Perhaps we’ll never know…), then the actor who was to play Buffalo Bill ...

Pros: Howard Keel at his arrogant best, Irving Berlin music, Judy Garland outtakes
Cons: Hutton overacted, several missing songs

I've come to the conclusion that anticipation can be a bad thing. You see, I have always wanted to see Annie Get Your Gun. I absolutely love Irving Berlin's incredible songs. I also enjoyed all of the tall tales I've heard about Annie Oakley, so...

Pros: One of the greatest of the classic M.G.M. musicals of the '40s
Cons: It's Betty Hutton, not Judy Garland

Until November 14, 2000, the movie - now video - version of this popular Irving Berlin musical has been virtually unseen for 50 years. It was the only important musical in the M.G.M. library that remained on the shelf - and few films have had the...

Pros: Hutton, the score, color, Garland outtakes, deleted numbers
Cons: no stereo

At last...Annie Get Your Gun comes to DVD (and VHS). And it was worth the wait. Susan Granger in her great epinion gives much of the background of this 1950 release so be sure and check hers out. My information is that a release of AGYG for home...

Pros: A crowning jewel for M.G.M
Cons: none I loved it

M.G.M's movie "Annie get your gun," hasn't been out for some 50 years, I was very happy to see it back, this time in video. The stage show is still running very strongly on Broadway. It's about time M.G.M has rerelihed this movie. This has to...