Annie / Oliver (Box Set) (DVD)

...I even named my daughter Annie (I know that's quite sad), I first saw this film when I was about 4 or 5 and I loved it, I still love it. The musical was based on Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip. Annie first opened on Broadway in April, 1977, running for almost 2,500 performances - making it one the longest running musicals of the 1970s. The following year it opened at the Victoria Palace in London, where it enjoyed another successful ...
...Director- John Huston Plot Annie is set Manhattan in the middle of the Great Depression. Annie was found wrapped in newspaper on the doorstep of an orphanage when she was a baby. Spends the next 11 years living under the rules of the alcoholic, virgin, narcissist Miss Hannigan, hoping that her real mother will one day come and collect her. Working day and nigh cleaning, cooking and looking after the home to escape miss Hannigan's beatings Annie ...

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Review of Annie / Oliver (Box Set) (DVD)

...gin-soaked tyrant, Miss Hannigan. Eventually Annie gets the chance to stay for a week at the famous billionaires house of Daddy Warbucks, but Miss Hannigan and her villainous colleagues are determined to spoil the fun of America's favourite orphan. SONGS - some songs are weaker than other. The most famous are 'It's a hard knock life' and 'Tomorrow'. Some other songs are catchy for example ' sandy' which is about her dumb dog, and 'I don't need anything ...
...PERFORMANCES The acting in Annie is very good, especially the performances of Carol Burnett, who plays drunken Miss Hannigan and Albert Finney who has the role of Daddy Warbucks. They are both very believeable and play their parts to perfection. The singing is outstanding, especially by the young children in the orphanage. Their vocals are high and they must have been cast for their singing ability as much as their acting skills. However, there ...

dancingwench 15.02.2006 · Read full review
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