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Best movie of this year hands down!

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Pal Joey (1957): Dir: George Sidney / Cast: Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood: Witty musical about the person that we can be as oppose to what our reputations display. Frank Sinatra plays a womanizing nightclub singer who is torn between two woman. As the film opens he escorted by police to the train station. From there he attempts to reenter the nightclub business, eventually succeeding. Rita Hayworth plays a high class wealthy widow whom he wants to convince to finance his club. She is withdrawn yet plays his game as seductress leaving him near exhausted in his pursuit. Kim Novak plays a chorus girl whom he meets through a neutral friend. Despite he efforts to charm her, she reacts cold and distant. When he rents an apartment next to her's she is hardly impressed that they have to share a bath. To even the odds she tricks him into purchasing a dog. While beginning and structure are detailed, the ending doesn't quite gel. Director George Sidney is backed by energetic production numbers and festive performances by the three leads. Sinatra plays off the sly nature of Joey whose voice and song are persuasive weapons. Hayworth is the withdrawn mysterious demeanor to Novak's insecure inner being who would prefer to avoid the seductive act. Other roles are as cardboard as a stage prop. Theme regards a genuine nature exposed when the curtain closes the act. Score: 7 ½ / 10

Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra) is charming, handsome, funny, talented, and a first class, A-number-one heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson (Rita Hayworth), the two lecherous souls seem made for each other.Frank Sinatra's movie career is very hit and miss. I am not, for example, a big fan of his song and dance movies with Gene Kelly. And it is not because I don't like musicals. I love Danny Kaye and such classics as "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". I just don't think Sinatra fits in.Here he plays something of a sleazy night life character. And although it is an act he plays up, he plays it up well. Rita Hayworth also does good, and it is Kim Novak's chance to shine. For those who love Sinatra, this is well worth seeking out and deserves to be better known.

Date: August.12, 2012 -First Time Watch- Continuing my journey through Frank Sinatra films I watched 'Pal Joey' next. In it Sinatra plays Joey Evans, a lady's man who wants nothing else then to run his own joint. He soon finds himself in the middle of two women, Linda English (Novak) a show girl and Vera Simpson (Hayworth) a wealthy widow. If you ask me, you couldn't go wrong with either women. I'm not a big musical person but I rather enjoyed this one. It didn't have too many musical numbers and the acting was really good. I especially love the scenes between Joey and Linda at the house where they're renting rooms right next to each other. Also a nice touch was the little dog that becomes Joey's after Linda pulls a bad trick on him. I really did like this movie and Frank Sinatra is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors.

What started as a series of letters in a newspaper, was then a hit on Broadway starring Gene Kelly, then became a movie classic in 1957's "Pal Joey".With a terrific Rodgers and Hart score (including "The Lady is a Tramp" which is sung in one of the best scenes in the whole movie, "My Funny Valentine" and "I Could Write a Book"), Frank Sinatra in the title role and Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak as the gorgeous leading ladies, really a plot was unnecessary. But your "Pal Joey" gives you one anyway, and a great one, too.Joey Evans (Ole Blue Eyes) is, essentially, a heel. Working as an M.C in a nightclub in San Francisco, Joey meets many women. But two interest him even more than all the others : Vera Simpson (Hayworth) and Linda English (Novak). Vera, a former stripper ("She used to be Vera with the Vanishing Veils"), is now a wealthy widow who is helping Joey finance his new nightclub, Chez Joey. Linda is the chorus girl ("the best built mouse in the joint") who Joey really falls for. Kim or Rita? Which would you choose? Either way, "Pal Joey" is a fun, classy ("K-L-A-S-Y") movie that you will love.