The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band
| The I and But, Genuine, Original Family Ring | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Michael O'Herlihy |
| Screenplay by | Lowell S. Hawley |
| Story by | Lowell Southward. Hawley Michael O'Herlihy |
| Based on | The Family Band: from the Missouri to the Black Hills, 1881-1900 by Laura Bower Van Nuys |
| Produced by | Bill Anderson |
| Starring | Walter Brennan Buddy Ebsen Lesley Ann Warren John Davidson |
| Cinematography | Frank 5. Phillips |
| Edited by | Cotton Warburton |
| Music past | Songs: Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman Score: Jack Elliott |
| Production | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box part | $2,250,000 (US/ Canada)[ane] |
The I and Merely, Genuine, Original Family Band is a 1968 American live-action musical picture show 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. Fix confronting the properties of the 1888 presidential ballot, the motion-picture show portrays the musically talented Bower family, American pioneers who settle in the Dakota Territory.
Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson head the bandage. Kurt Russell is also featured, and, in a bit part, Goldie Hawn makes her big-screen debut.
Plot [edit]
The Bower Family unit Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a rally song for President Grover Cleveland at the party's 1888 convention. On the urging of Joe Carder, a journalist and suitor to eldest Bower daughter Alice, the family decides instead to move 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 promise to get the territory admitted as ii states (Northward and Due south Dakota) rather than i (so as to send iv Republican senators to Washington rather than 2). Grandad's actions result in family strife, including nearly costing Alice her position as the town's new schoolhouse teacher. The budding romance between Joe and Alice also suffers. In the end, more than ballots are cast for Cleveland, simply Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison nonetheless wins the Electoral Higher vote and the presidency. Before he leaves office, Cleveland grants statehood to both the two Dakotas, forth with Montana and Washington, evening the gains for both parties. The Dakotans, peculiarly 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
- Neb Woodson - Henry White
- Goldie Hawn (as Goldie Jeanne Hawn) - Giggly Girl
- Jonathan Kidd - Telegrapher
Songs [edit]
"The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Ring" The film opens with Grandfather conducting all ten members of the Bower family unit, 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 Daughter Live" Alice expresses her intense emotions over receiving her latest letter of the alphabet from suitor Joe Carder.
"Allow's Put It Over with Grover" The Bowers perform this Grover Cleveland entrada song to a representative from the Democratic National Commission.[2]
"Ten Feet off the Footing" Ecstatic at the prospect of performing at the National Convention, the family band engages in an impromptu celebration. They sing nigh the feeling which but music tin can bestow, figuratively lifting them "10 Feet off the Ground". (This was i of two songs from the film covered past Louis Armstrong later in 1968.)
"Dakota" Joe Carder entices local Missouri families, singing about the marvels of the Dakota Territory. ("Dakota" is similar in manner to the title song of the Oklahoma! and was once considered as a candidate for "state vocal" for South Dakota.)
"'Tour Time" 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 after featured in the 2005 moving-picture show, Bewitched.)
"Drummin' Drummin' Drummin'" Grandpa Bower recounts the tale of a young drummer boy during the Ceremonious State of war, inspiring all the children in the school firm that they too can stand their ground and make a difference.
"Due west o' the Broad 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 campaign song; they sing their praise for Benjamin Harrison, who is "far beyond comparing."
The original bandage 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 second bandage anthology have been released on CD or to iTunes.
Production [edit]
Originally planned every bit a two-part television show titled The Family unit Ring, the project was based on a volume by Laura Bower Van Nuys. The memoir by Van Nuys, the youngest of the Bower children, described her family unit'southward brass ring, their journeying out of Missouri, and their frontier life in the Black Hills.
Walt Disney had asked the Sherman Brothers for their assist on the project, feeling the story was too flat. The Shermans wrote the song "The Ane and Just, Genuine, Original Family unit Ring", which was ultimately used as the championship of the movement picture. After hearing the song, Disney decided to add together more songs to the movie and turn it into a musical. In all, the Sherman Brothers wrote 11 songs for the picture, though Robert Sherman reportedly did so under protest, believing the subject matter too mundane to be fabricated into a feature-length musical film.
The motion picture reunited Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson as the romantic leads in a Disney live-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 Granddaddy Bower because the thespian reminded Walt of his begetter.
Theatrical release and reception [edit]
The film premiered at Radio Urban center Music Hall in New York City. Originally intended to run 156 minutes, the Music Hall requested xx minutes of cuts. Disney responded by cutting the pic to 110 minutes. Amongst the cuts were Westerin', sung by Calvin, and I Couldn't Accept Dreamed it Better, sung by Katie. The Sherman Brothers and producer Beak Anderson objected, but the studio heads told them the cuts would exist just for the Music Hall'southward engagement. Robert B. Sherman pointed out that the Music Hall is where New York motion-picture show critics screen musical films, arguing that the cuts weakened the characters' dramatic motivation. He too predicted that those cuts would result in negative reviews.
Radio Urban center Music Hall got its fashion, and the 110-minute version is the simply ane that ever saw a release. Sherman's predictions came true when the New York Times' critic Renata Adler panned the film after seeing it at the Music Hall, calling the movie "almost as pepless and fizzled a musical as has always come out of the Walt Disney Studios."[v] As of 2014, Disney has made no effort at a reconstruction of the originally intended cut, but sheet music of the two cut songs was included in the book Disney's Lost Chords, Volume two.
Reception from other critics [edit]
The film fared no amend among virtually other major critics. Variety described it as "an overly-contrived characteristic which soon 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 moving-picture show "is, I am afraid, the worst Disney moving-picture show in a long time." According to Champlin, there were some "pleasant, chirpy tunes," but they "can't overcome the lack of any real dramatic conflict, even at the level appropriate to musical comedy, nor the lack of an interesting central grapheme."[seven] 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 tedious tirades, and the Warren - Davidson 'mush.'"[eight] Edgar J. Driscoll Jr. of The Boston Globe said the moving picture "flats like a tubeless tuba — if there is such a thing. Not that the kids won't enjoy it. They volition. Just for adults the sasparilla may go downwardly the wrong manner. Certainly information technology's no runner-up to 'Mary Poppins' or 'The Audio of Music.' Not by a long shot, though the pitch is definitely aimed that-a-way."[ix]
One positive review of the film came from Lou Cedrone, who remarked in Baltimore'southward Evening Dominicus paper that "the Walt Disney studios take done with 'The 1 and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band' what they tried and failed to do with 'The Happiest Millionaire.' That is, the flick is pleasant in the Disney tradition and what's more than, the songs and dancing, the latter choreographed by Hugh Lambert, are specially nice."[x]
Box role and television ambulation [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 film was released on videotape in 1981 and on LaserDisc in 1982.[12] [13]
After twenty 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 Thousand. Sherman, Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson and a 12-infinitesimal making-of featurette featuring all three.
Literary sources [edit]
- Van Nuys, Laura Bower (1961). The Family Band : from the Missouri to the Black Hills, 1881-1900. Pioneer Heritage Series, vol. 5. Lincoln: University 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's People - Book 8. Xlibris Corporation, pgs. 203, 206–207, 247.[ self-published source ]
- Schroder, Russell (2008). Disney'south Lost Chords Volume 2. Robbinsville, North Carolina: Voigt Publications, pgs. 17–25.
External links [edit]
- Official website
- The I and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band at IMDb
- The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band at Rotten Tomatoes
- The One and Only, 18-carat, Original Family Band at the TCM Movie Database
- DVD review on UltimateDisney.com
- The sap is runnin' high at Disney'south, Fourth dimension magazine 1968 moving-picture show review
- Bower Family Ring, Keystone Area Historical Society
- Film soundtrack on CastAlbums.org
References [edit]
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p xv. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
- ^ The songwriters' father, Al Sherman (who was also a songwriter) wrote ii songs which were used equally 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 Practise We Do On A) Dew-Dew-Dewey Day" for his entrada. Iv years later Sherman wrote a song specifically for Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign called "I Similar Ike."
- ^ Murray, R. Michael (1997). "The Golden Age of Walt Disney Records, 1933-1988". Dubuque, Iowa: Antique Trader Books. p. 72.
- ^ Murray, R. Michael (1997). "The Golden Age of Walt Disney Records, 1933-1988". Dubuque, Iowa: Antique Trader Books. p. 33.
- ^ Adler, Renata (March 22, 1968). "Film: 'One and Only Genuine Original Family Band". The New York Times. 55.
- ^ "Film Reviews: The One and Simply, 18-carat, Original Family Ring". Diversity. March twenty, 1968. 6.
- ^ Champlin, Charles (July 12, 1968). "'The Original Family Ring' Opens Citywide Date". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Media Services. p. viii, part 4.
- ^ Terry, Clifford (July 23, 1968). "'Family Ring' is Out of Melody". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Media Services. p. five, s. ii.
- ^ Driscoll, Edgar J. (July xi, 1968). "'Family unit Ring' ideal film for youngsters". The Boston World. Boston Earth Media Partners, LLC. p. 36.
- ^ Cedrone, Lou (July 1, 1968). "Showing Effectually Boondocks". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland: Tribune Media Services. p. E10.
- ^ Cotter, Beak (1997). The Wonderful World of Disney Television. New York, NY: Hyperion. p. 90.
- ^ "MCA Discovision Library". Retrieved December 27, 2013. Several anthology series episodes were released through this deal, and several other live-action features were part of information technology, but simply Kidnapped ever saw a DiscoVision release.
- ^ "Disney Laserdisc Database". Retrieved 2013-12-27 .
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