The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band Cast
| The 1 and Only, Genuine, Original Family Ring | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed past | Michael O'Herlihy |
| Screenplay by | Lowell Southward. Hawley |
| Story by | Lowell South. Hawley Michael O'Herlihy |
| Based on | The Family Band: from the Missouri to the Black Hills, 1881-1900 past Laura Bower Van Nuys |
| Produced past | Bill Anderson |
| Starring | Walter Brennan Buddy Ebsen Lesley Ann Warren John Davidson |
| Cinematography | Frank V. Phillips |
| Edited by | Cotton Warburton |
| Music by | Songs: Richard 1000. Sherman Robert B. Sherman Score: Jack Elliott |
| Production | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
| Release date |
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| Running fourth dimension | 110 minutes |
| Country | Us |
| Language | English |
| Box part | $2,250,000 (Usa/ Canada)[1] |
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family unit Ring is a 1968 American live-activity musical moving picture from Walt Disney Productions. Distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, the film is based on a biography by Laura Bower Van Nuys, directed by Michael O'Herlihy, with original music and lyrics by the Sherman Brothers. Set against the backdrop of the 1888 presidential election, the pic portrays the musically talented Bower family unit, American pioneers who settle in the Dakota Territory.
Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson caput the cast. Kurt Russell is too featured, and, in a bit part, Goldie Hawn makes her big-screen debut.
Plot [edit]
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Commission to sing a rally song for President Grover Cleveland at the party'due south 1888 convention. On the urging of Joe Carder, a announcer and suitor to eldest Bower daughter Alice, the family decides instead to motion to the Dakota Territory. There, Grandpa Bower, a staunch Democrat, causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland sentiments. The Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and they hope to become the territory admitted as 2 states (North and South Dakota) rather than i (so as to transport four Republican senators to Washington rather than two). Grandpa'southward actions issue in family unit strife, including nearly costing Alice her position as the town'southward new school teacher. The budding romance between Joe and Alice also suffers. In the end, more ballots are cast for Cleveland, but Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison withal wins the Electoral College vote and the presidency. Before he leaves function, Cleveland grants statehood to both the two Dakotas, forth with Montana and Washington, evening the gains for both parties. The Dakotans, particularly the feuding young couple, resolve to live together in peace.
Cast [edit]
- Walter Brennan - Renssaeler Bower
- Buddy Ebsen - Calvin Bower
- John Davidson - Joe Carder
- Lesley Ann Warren - Alice Bower
- Janet Blair - Katie Bower
- Kurt Russell - Sidney Bower
- Steve Harmon - Ernie Stubbins
- Richard Deacon - Charlie Wrenn
- Wally Cox - Wampler
- Debbie Smith - Lulu Bower
- Bobby Riha - Mayo Bower
- Smith Wordes - Nettie Bower
- Heidi Rook - Rose Bower
- Jon Walmsley - Quinn Bower
- Pamelyn Ferdin - Laura Bower
- John Craig - Frank
- Bill Woodson - Henry White
- Goldie Hawn (as Goldie Jeanne Hawn) - Giggly Daughter
- Jonathan Kidd - Telegrapher
Songs [edit]
"The 1 and Merely, Genuine, Original Family Band" The film opens with Grandfather conducting all ten members of the Bower family, each playing a different musical instrument. Practicing in their barn, the family dances among the animals and hay, boasting of their unique talents and versatility.
"The Happiest Girl Alive" Alice expresses her intense emotions over receiving her latest alphabetic character from suitor Joe Carder.
"Allow'southward Put Information technology Over with Grover" The Bowers perform this Grover Cleveland campaign song to a representative from the Autonomous National Committee.[two]
"X Anxiety off the Ground" Ecstatic at the prospect of performing at the National Convention, the family ring engages in an impromptu celebration. They sing about the feeling which merely music can bestow, figuratively lifting them "10 Feet off the Ground". (This was one of two songs from the picture show covered past Louis Armstrong later in 1968.)
"Dakota" Joe Carder entices local Missouri families, singing about the marvels of the Dakota Territory. ("Dakota" is like in style to the title song of the Oklahoma! and was once considered as a candidate for "state song" for South Dakota.)
"'Bout Fourth dimension" Joe Carder expresses his devotion to Alice, telling her it's "'Bout Time" they were engaged, she responds in kind, and the two sing this duet. (This song was covered by Louis Armstrong and was later featured in the 2005 film, Bewitched.)
"Drummin' Drummin' Drummin'" Grandad Bower recounts the tale of a immature drummer boy during the Civil State of war, inspiring all the children in the schoolhouse house that they as well can stand their ground and make a divergence.
"Westward o' the Wide Missouri" On election night, locals dance and celebrate their part in American expansionism west of the Missouri River.
"Oh, Benjamin Harrison" The Republicans in town have their ain entrada song; they sing their praise for Benjamin Harrison, who is "far beyond comparison."
The original cast soundtrack was released on Buena Vista Records in stereo (STER-5002) and mono (BV-5002).[3] Disneyland Records released a second cast album with studio singers and arrangements by Tutti Camarata, with both mono (DQ-1316) and stereo (STER-1316) versions.[4] Neither the soundtrack or the 2d cast anthology have been released on CD or to iTunes.
Production [edit]
Originally planned as a two-part television show titled The Family Band, the project was based on a book by Laura Bower Van Nuys. The memoir past Van Nuys, the youngest of the Bower children, described her family unit's brass band, their journeying out of Missouri, and their borderland life in the Blackness Hills.
Walt Disney had asked the Sherman Brothers for their help on the project, feeling the story was too flat. The Shermans wrote the song "The One and Merely, Genuine, Original Family Band", which was ultimately used as the title of the motion picture. Later hearing the vocal, Disney decided to add more songs to the moving picture and plow information technology into a musical. In all, the Sherman Brothers wrote eleven songs for the film, though Robert Sherman reportedly did so under protest, assertive the subject field matter too mundane to exist fabricated into a feature-length musical pic.
The movie reunited Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson as the romantic leads in a Disney alive-action musical, having previously been paired in The Happiest Millionaire (1967), starring Fred MacMurray. Disney brought back Walter Brennan from The Gnome-Mobile (1967) (starring the Mary Poppins kids Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber) to play Grandfather Bower because the player reminded Walt of his father.
Theatrical release and reception [edit]
The film premiered at Radio Metropolis Music Hall in New York Urban center. Originally intended to run 156 minutes, the Music Hall requested 20 minutes of cuts. Disney responded past cut the movie to 110 minutes. Among the cuts were Westerin', sung by Calvin, and I Couldn't Take Dreamed information technology Better, sung by Katie. The Sherman Brothers and producer Bill Anderson objected, merely the studio heads told them the cuts would exist merely for the Music Hall's engagement. Robert B. Sherman pointed out that the Music Hall is where New York movie critics screen musical films, arguing that the cuts weakened the characters' dramatic motivation. He also predicted that those cuts would result in negative reviews.
Radio City Music Hall got its way, and the 110-minute version is the merely one that ever saw a release. Sherman's predictions came true when the New York Times' critic Renata Adler panned the motion picture afterwards seeing information technology at the Music Hall, calling the film "almost equally pepless and fizzled a musical every bit has e'er come up out of the Walt Disney Studios."[5] Every bit of 2014, Disney has made no attempt at a reconstruction of the originally intended cut, just sail music of the 2 cut songs was included in the book Disney's Lost Chords, Volume 2.
Reception from other critics [edit]
The moving picture fared no meliorate amidst near other major critics. Variety described it as "an overly-contrived feature which before long forgets its promise and premise and turns instead to a political mishmash of events which has little novelty."[6] Charles Champlin of The Los Angeles Times wrote that the motion picture "is, I am agape, the worst Disney moving-picture show in a long time." Co-ordinate to Champlin, there were some "pleasant, chirpy tunes," but they "can't overcome the lack of any real dramatic conflict, fifty-fifty at the level appropriate to musical comedy, nor the lack of an interesting cardinal grapheme."[vii] Clifford Terry of the Chicago Tribune called it "some other Walt Disney studio production that isn't designed to appease squirmy family audiences, since it is filled with a flurry of limpid songs, Brennan's irksome tirades, and the Warren - Davidson 'mush.'"[viii] Edgar J. Driscoll Jr. of The Boston Globe said the picture show "flats like a tubeless tuba — if there is such a matter. Non that the kids won't bask it. They will. Simply for adults the sasparilla may go downward the incorrect mode. Certainly information technology'due south no runner-up to 'Mary Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' Non by a long shot, though the pitch is definitely aimed that-a-way."[ix]
One positive review of the pic came from Lou Cedrone, who remarked in Baltimore's Evening Sun paper that "the Walt Disney studios have done with 'The One and Simply, Genuine, Original Family Band' what they tried and failed to do with 'The Happiest Millionaire.' That is, the movie is pleasant in the Disney tradition and what's more, the songs and dancing, the latter choreographed past Hugh Lambert, are especially nice."[10]
Box office and television airing [edit]
Bringing in $2,250,000 in rentals, it was never reissued to theaters; instead, it aired on The Wonderful Earth of Disney in two parts on January 23 and January 30, 1972.[11]
Home media [edit]
While a planned 1979 MCA DiscoVision release with the catalog number D18-513 was cancelled, the moving picture was released on videotape in 1981 and on LaserDisc in 1982.[12] [13]
After 20 years of unavailability, the film was released on DVD on July 6, 2004. Though the transfer was not in the original aspect ratio, it included an sound commentary from Richard M. Sherman, Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson and a 12-minute making-of featurette featuring all three.
Literary sources [edit]
- Van Nuys, Laura Bower (1961). The Family unit Ring : from the Missouri to the Blackness Hills, 1881-1900. Pioneer Heritage Serial, vol. five. Lincoln: Academy of Nebraska Printing.
- Sherman, Robert B. (1998). Walt's Time: from before to beyond. Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, pgs. 148–149.
- Gheiz, Didier (2009). Walt'south People - Volume 8. Xlibris Corporation, pgs. 203, 206–207, 247.[ self-published source ]
- Schroder, Russell (2008). Disney's Lost Chords Volume 2. Robbinsville, Northward Carolina: Voigt Publications, pgs. 17–25.
External links [edit]
- Official website
- The One and Merely, Genuine, Original Family Band at IMDb
- The I and Only, 18-carat, Original Family Band at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Ane and Just, Genuine, Original Family Band at the TCM Pic Database
- DVD review on UltimateDisney.com
- The sap is runnin' high at Disney'south, Time mag 1968 movie review
- Bower Family Band, Keystone Area Historical Society
- Film soundtrack on CastAlbums.org
References [edit]
- ^ "Large Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p fifteen. Please notation this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
- ^ The songwriters' father, Al Sherman (who was also a songwriter) wrote ii songs which were used every bit campaign songs for two different Presidential candidates in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1948 election, Republican candidate, Thomas Dewey usurped the Al Sherman/Charles Tobias/Howard Johnson collaboration, "(What Do We Do On A) Dew-Dew-Dewey Day" for his campaign. Four years after Sherman wrote a song specifically for Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign called "I Like Ike."
- ^ Murray, R. Michael (1997). "The Aureate Historic period of Walt Disney Records, 1933-1988". Dubuque, Iowa: Antique Trader Books. p. 72.
- ^ Murray, R. Michael (1997). "The Gilded Historic period of Walt Disney Records, 1933-1988". Dubuque, Iowa: Antiquarian Trader Books. p. 33.
- ^ Adler, Renata (March 22, 1968). "Film: 'Ane and Only Genuine Original Family unit Band". The New York Times. 55.
- ^ "Picture show Reviews: The 1 and But, Genuine, Original Family Ring". Multifariousness. March 20, 1968. 6.
- ^ Champlin, Charles (July 12, 1968). "'The Original Family Ring' Opens Citywide Appointment". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Media Services. p. viii, part IV.
- ^ Terry, Clifford (July 23, 1968). "'Family Ring' is Out of Tune". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Media Services. p. 5, s. 2.
- ^ Driscoll, Edgar J. (July 11, 1968). "'Family unit Band' ideal moving picture for youngsters". The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. p. 36.
- ^ Cedrone, Lou (July 1, 1968). "Showing Around Town". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland: Tribune Media Services. p. E10.
- ^ Cotter, Bill (1997). The Wonderful Earth of Disney Telly. New York, NY: Hyperion. p. ninety.
- ^ "MCA Discovision Library". Retrieved December 27, 2013. Several album serial episodes were released through this deal, and several other live-activity features were part of information technology, but only Kidnapped ever saw a DiscoVision release.
- ^ "Disney Laserdisc Database". Retrieved 2013-12-27 .
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