My Review:
The DVD reviewed for "Annie Get Your Gun" is digitally enhanced with excellent video quality. The colors are sharp, vivid and natural and the picture is clear and bright. The sound also is clear and there is ample volume even on a portable television set.
Although the DVD is excellent quality and the movie has wonderful music, the film includes scenes that are very offensive in their portrayal of Native Americans. The scenes should have been cut from the DVD, especially the "I'm an Indian Too" number.
The movie of "Annie Get Your Gun" was a poor stage to movie transition. The songs are sung directly to the camera, as if to a theater audience. This is especially true for the numbers, "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" and "No Business Like Show Business." However, the music is enjoyable and both Betty Hutton and Howard Keel had good voices.
The extra outtakes on the DVD are also digitally enhanced and the "Doing What Comes Naturally" with Judy Garland is a delight to watch. Although Garland wasn't as "cute" as Betty Hutton, her singing of the number was exceptional. The other outtakes are nothing special and the "I'm an Indian Too" number, although slightly different from the version in the film, is just as offensive and shouldn't have been added to the DVD.
The movie "Annie Get Your Gun" wasn't in public release from 1973 until 2000 due to a dispute with Irving Berlin and M-G-M over the music rights to the songs.