| | Stormy Weather DVD Stormy Weather CDS
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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Music Video Movies, Pop Music Videos Videos, Musical, Black Heritage | | Starring | Lena Horne, Eddie Anderson, Cab Calloway, Dooley Wilson, Bill Robinson, Johnny Lee, Ernest Whitman | | Director | Andrew L. Stone | | Cinematographer | Leon Shamroy | | Editor | James B. Clark | | Featured | Fats Waller | | Music Director | Emil Newman | | Producer | William LeBaron | | Production Designer | James Basevi, Joseph C. Wright | | Writer | Jerry Horwin, Frederick Jackson, Ted Koehler |
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English This musical extravaganza is one of the best all-black cast film ever made and stars a coruncopia of Hollywood's finest. A husband and wife team are struggling to make it in show business, she singing and he tap dancing. Fats Waller sings "Ain't Misbehavin'" and Lena sings the title tune. Stormy Weather Reviews: "[T]he quick of eye will be able to spot the legendary jazz musicians Benny Carter, Illinois Jacquet and Coleman Hawkins among the band members..."
-- Dave Kehr, New York Times Stormy Weather | List Price | $14.98 (You save $5.29) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1943 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  3823  | | CD Universe Part number | 6989851 | | Catalog number | 2232184 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 10, 2006 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 78 Minutes | | Additional Info | Black & White | | Movie Details | B&W; Digitally Processed; Black & White |
Stormy Weather Movie Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   DVD is not as advertised
Stormy Weather is probably one of the most entertaining musicals ever made. Roughly 80% of this film is music, but it never comes off like a long music video.
The "Not as Advertised" gripe I have is that the DVD is listed as having a featurette on Bill Robinson, it does not. The only extras is a "dry" voice over lecture and some postcard size lobby cards.
Submitted by hvsobn (San Francisco, CA) 
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 Wonderfull
I've been looking for this motion picture for years. Thanks to CD Universe I finaly got it. Realy very good quality remastered pictucture and sound.
The marvelous Lena Horne is wonderfull, and its always a delight to see and ear Cab Calloway and Fats Waller.
Some thing we'll never forget
Submitted by sohier_patrick (HIRSON, Aisne, France)
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Problems with the DVD "Stormy Weather"
The product is very OK. I saw the film 1948 here in Vienna under the German title "Haarleem tanzt". But I had problems with Your DVD. The DVD didn't work on my player because the regional code was wrong, I think it was only for U.S. Copying the DVD to my computer and burning a new DVD I could see the film on my player.
Greetings from Austria
Edgar Lieber
Submitted by edgar.lieber (Vienna, Austria, Europe)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 0 of 1 found this helpful. A Great Early Black Musical
The movie is worth the price just to see Lena Horne sing Stormy Weather. This movie should be in the library of every serious collector of early black films.
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This review is for a different format. NOTHING BUT STARS IN THE SKY TONIGHT !!
I AM GRATEFUL TO LENA HORNE FOR REFUSING TO BE STEREOTYPED.AND LETTING THE OTHER NON-BLACK AMERICANS KNOW THAT WE ARE GIFTED WITH SONG,DANCE,AND ACTING SKILLS.AS YOU SAW THE WHOLE CAST WAS FULL OF BLACK-AMERICAN STARS.
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Stormy Weather DVD Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
Mono - Spanish, French
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: "Bill Robinson: Mr. Bojangles"
Audio Commentary: Dr. Todd Boyd - USC Professor
Trailers:
1. DADDY LONG LEGS
2. CALL ME MADAM
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