Film · MGM · 1955
Pass it on
Guys and Dolls
48Watch it awake.
The bet is fun until you count the fourteen years she already waited.
The review
Fourteen years is the number I cannot get past. A showgirl has been engaged that long to a man who will not marry until he wins. Around that wait, gamblers in New York make a bet: one of them can take a mission worker on a date to Havana. The mission is real. The bet is the plot.
The songs are why people still like it, and I liked them too. Liking them does not make the wager kind. She has already spent the years. The mission worker has a job that the bet treats as a stake. A teen can watch. Say the engagement is not a charming delay. It is a man who will not marry until the money arrives.
Journal
Keep Guys and Dolls in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.
The glance
Courage and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Music Man
55 instead of 48
The Music Man is still a musical film, and it scores 55 instead of 48. What you gain is stewardship: A boy with a horn is a better inheritance than a salesman's smile, and the film agrees.
The eight
- 5Industry
A mission worker has a real job; the gamblers' work is the bet.
- 6Household
A showgirl's fourteen-year engagement waits on a man who must win first.
- 6Piety
The mission is real, and the plot still uses it as the stake of a bet.
- 4Courage
He bets he can take a mission worker to Havana, and that is the risk.
- 5Republic
A mission owes the neighborhood; the gamblers owe the next game.
- 3Temperance
The wager and the Havana date are the pleasures the story invites.
- 5Truth
He will not marry until he wins, and she has already paid fourteen years.
- 4Stewardship
The mission is still standing, but the plot spent it as a gambler's dare.
Where to watch
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