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Damn Yankees

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Damn Yankees
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1hr 50min
Genres:
Sci-Fi,Musical
Release:
1958
Directors:
George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston  ...more
Synopsis: Damn Yankees is a frothy, faithful adaptation of the 1956 Broadway hit. In an amusing slant on the "Faust" legend, aging baseball fan Joe Boyd (Robert Schafer) is given an opportunity to lead his beloved Washington Senators to victory by a devilish gent named Applegate (Ray Walston). Boyd is transformed into handsome young "Shoeless" Joe Hardy from Hannibal, Mo. (and in the process, the part is taken over by Tab Hunter, who's better than everyone said he was back in 1958). Joe becomes the Senators' ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Like such other Broadway luminaries as Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, Gwen Verdon was rarely given the opportunity to re-create her stage triumphs onscreen. Damn Yankees is the sole exception, and Verdon makes the most of the opportunity. The ultimate Bob Fosse dancer, she moves with a snakelike grace yet muscular intensity that wrings every ounce of meaning from Fosse's choreography. Fosse himself ... Full Review
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Tab Hunter
Joe Hardy
Gwen Verdon
Lola
Ray Walston
Applegate
Russ Brown
Van Buren
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