Guys and Dolls (film)

Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows based on The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure, two short stories by Damon Runyon. Dances were choreographed by Michael Kidd, who had also staged the dances for the Broadway production.

Although there are detail differences between the stage and movie versions, the plot is essentially based on the activities of New York petty criminals and professional gamblers in the late 1940s.Gambler Nathan Detroit Frank Sinatra is under pressure from all sides. He has to organize an unlicensed crap game but the police, led by Lieutenant Brannigan Robert Keith, are putting on the heat. All the places where Nathan usually holds his games refuse him entry due to Brannigans intimidating pressure. The owner of the Biltmore garage does agree to host the game provided Nathan pays him 1000 in cash in advance. The garage owner will not even accept a marker or IOU, he insists on having the money itself. Adding to Nathans problems, his fiance, Miss Adelaide Vivian Blaine, a nightclub singer, wants to bring an end to their 14year engagement and actually tie the knot. She also wants him to go straight, but organizing illegal gambling is the only thing hes good at. ........

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