“Singin’ In The Rain” remains my favorite film for so many reasons.
You’re absolutely right. There are no 80mm theaters.
What’s more, there never were any 80mm theaters
You meant 70mm.
If you want to know where you can see films in 70mm, here’s your best resource: in70mm.com.
It was a really good comedy and I didn’t even know it was one. That director losing his mind trying to get the girl to speak into the microphone. It’s true when sound movies were new, they hid the microphones in the set. Elocution lessons for actors were hilarious as well.
Was Gene Kelly that much of a jerk to Debbie Reynolds during production? I’ve heard he was way too hard on her.
My bad - 70 mm..there are 3 in Australia no where near us but we are going to Melbourne in a few months so might get to see either Ben Hur or Pink Floyd - The Wall.
Something is wrong with the first 4k disc of Lawrence - second disc was okay - wonder what warranty is on Steelbook 4k discs.? 
I have a couple of defective discs I need to sort.
Certainly was not overwhelmed with Lawrence on the new 55" …bit grainy in near field but very crisp.
Satisfactory further away but I am still haunted by the 70mm experience in Hamilton Ontario when the refresh came out.
I’ll spend some evenings going through the 4k collection. I know there is a defective box set of Harry Potter tho it is confined to a small section of all of the discs and can be played through.
Avatar original was flat out not seen by the player and its a decent Panasonic. Way of Water tho was fine. 
I’d tend to agree …O’Connor a step up over Kelly tho both wonderful.
I have a very specific cognitive disorder where I can’t tell if it is Donald O’Conner or Danny Kaye I am seeing on the screen.
And..
“Why, I make more money than - than - than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!”
Jean Hagen was a treasure. She died way too young.
I would laugh at you, except that I used to have the same affliction concerning Michael Keaton and Kevin Costner. And Seth Rogen / Jason Segel.
There are a very narrow set of circumstances where that would be considered a disability.
I have the same issue with Toby Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal.
I look like Danny Kaye so that one not an issue.
Well, damn. Danny Kaye was hot stuff, if you ask me.
He was the model for Funnyman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster’s follow-up to Superman:
Just saw it. Way over the top but doesn’t take itself too seriously and has lots of funny parts. Has enough stunts and exploding objects for half a dozen Bond movies. Highly recommended provided you’re willing to accept the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the UK as high-energy action heroes worthy of a Marvel movie, but the movie is such a fun ride that pretty soon you don’t care.
Superman (2025)
Recommended.
The last 40 or so minutes of this movie are terrific, top tier stuff. Just excellent. The opening 1+ hours? Well, pretty good. Not amazing, though. Just pretty good.
So, uh, we are still using the Superman theme from John Williams? I guess…I mean, might be time to move on.
Loved the new guy as Superman, though. Lex Luthor was also terrific, and Nathan Fillion was a fun Green Lantern character.
Anyway, check it out. I hear people are seeing politics in this movie. I agree with Nathan Fillion who just said, “Come on, guy, it’s just a movie.” This was indeed just a movie. Nothing hugely political.
Kelly once was quoted as saying that he was quite hard on her and that after making that movie he was surprised that she ever spoke to him again.
She was just 19 years old when she made that movie. And she was not a trained dancer. Yet she held her own against Kelly and O’Connor. Can you imagine what it was like sharing the screen with two hoofers like that? It’s a wonder she didn’t have a nervous breakdown.
So did I, in 1962, when it finally made its way to my neighborhood theater for the Saturday afternoon kiddie matinee. Admission 35 cents. (It was released in late 1961.) It was the first time I ever saw Donald O’Connor. I didn’t see the Francis movies until much later, when they ran on TV. I recall my 10 year-old self thought it was entertaining, but what did I know. I haven’t seen it since. Have you? Was it any good?
It had an interesting cast. I’d be curious to watch it again. It doesn’t seem to be available for free anywhere, and I’m not paying Amazon Prime to watch it.
I have a poster from it in my collection. It’s very colorful and looks like fun.
I don’t precisely recall. I was about ten when last I saw it, too. I have the Dell comic adaptation, though, which I re-read multiple times. There are bits and pieces of the film I recall with greeat clarity, and a big stretch I can’t recall at all.
It was OK, I guess. O’Connor, at about 35, was a bit old for an Aladdin (I think he’s the oldest one I can think of). For some reason, there were a lot of Arabian Nights movies at that time – the second remake of Thief of Bagdad, Ray Harryhausen’s Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Guy Williams’ Captain Sinbad, The UPA/Mister Magoo 1001 Arabian Nights. I guess they figured they hit a rich vein, and they couldn’t all be Hercules movies.
Public domain source material is always a good choice.
There was also a little movie made in 1960 called “The Wizard of Baghdad,” starring Dick Shawn (of all people) as the Genie, and co-starring young and very comely Diane Baker and TV actor Barry Coe. I remember nothing about it other than it was pretty silly and was released by 20th Century Fox, so there was a little major studio pedigree involved.
Here’s what the New York Times said about it: “For customers who will laugh at anything, including that singular unfunny man, Dick Shawn… the waste of energy, costumes and backgrounds is truly appalling.”
Really? I always thought Dick Shawn was a pretty funny guy. Remember him in “The Producers?” Hilarious!
He died in a most bizarre way. He had a heart attack on stage and fell over. The audience thought it was part of his act. When he didn’t get back up about five minutes later, somebody figured out this was no joke and called an ambulance. Many comedians die on stage. Dick Shawn did it for real.
I’ve only seen him in Producers and Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and he is very entertaining in both.
“I lieb ya, I lieb ya…now lieb me alone!”