A lesser movie musical in the annals of 20th Century-Fox, Gregory Ratoff’s Carnival in Costa Rica is nevertheless tuneful and filled with good dancing and is a film that showed off typically eye-popping Technicolor at every opportunity. Fox sent its B-team in terms of box-office draws to head this film (no Grable, Faye, Crain, or Haver), so the film doesn’t have much of a reputation and was clearly pushed aside for Fox’s big A-musical of 1947 Mother Wore Tights. But when you’ve got a musical featuring dancing sensation Vera-Ellen being choreographed by the virtuoso Russian ballet star Leonide Massine, it demands attention.
Studio: Fox
Distributed By: N/A
Video Resolution and Encode: 480I/MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English 2.0 DD
Subtitles: None
Rating: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 Hr. 36 Min.
Package Includes: DVD
Amray caseDisc Type: DVD-R
Region: All
Release Date: 04/16/2013
MSRP: $19.98
The Production Rating: 3/5
Video Rating: 3.5/5 3D Rating: NA
Audio Rating: 3/5
Special Features Rating: 0/5
Overall Rating: 3/5
Reviewed By: Matt Hough
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