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“Perhaps it’s a bit too long, and maybe a few of the musical sequences are a little stiff, but I still think Guys and Dolls is an enjoyable riot. Obvious musical players like Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine excel here, but Jean Simmons is the surprising coup, providing the movie with a heart and soul, while Marlon Brando reveals that there was a natural comedian lurking underneath all that smoldering Method intensity. Perfect it ain’t, but it’s got a lot of color and charm. Let’s get the problems out of the way first, because what works outweighs it. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz was a natural for quiet, small character-driven dramas, look at his superior “women’s picture” A Letter to Three Wives or the towering achievement that is All About Eve, but he wasn’t a natural” read more