Grease [videorecording].
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 11839 | Paramount Home EntertainmentPublication details: [United States] : Paramount Home Entertainment, 2006.Edition: Rockin' Rydell editionDescription: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1415724709
- Director of photography, Bill Butler; choreographer, Patricia Birch; editor, John F. Burnett.
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Main Library | DVD | MUSIC Grease | In transit from Dr. James Carlson Library to Main Library since 05/15/2024 | 33111008649820 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan Carr and director Randal Kleiser turned this long-running Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey Broadway smash into the biggest blockbuster of 1978. 1950s teens Danny (John Travolta) and Australian transfer Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) spend their "Summer Nights" falling in love, but once fall comes, it's back to Rydell High and its cliques. As one of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny has to act cool for best pal Kenickie (Jeff Conaway) and their leather-clad mates Sonny (Michael Tucci) and Doody (Barry Pearl, in the role Travolta played on-stage). Despite befriending Frenchy (Didi Conn), one of the rebel Pink Ladies, virginal Sandy is "too pure to be Pink," as the Ladies' leader, Rizzo (Stockard Channing), acidly observes. Declaring their devotion in such ballads as "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Sandy," Sandy and Danny split, reconcile, and split again amidst a pep rally, dances, drive-ins, and a drag race, before deciding "You're the One That I Want" at the climactic carnival. With Travolta white-hot from Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease soundtrack singles climbed the charts and summer movie crowds poured in. With the presence of Joan Blondell, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, and Frankie Avalon appealing to grown-up memories, Grease became the highest-grossing film of 1978, the highest-grossing movie musical ever, and the third most popular film of the new blockbuster '70s after Star Wars (1977) and Jaws (1975). Its sequel, Grease 2, did not exactly set the world on fire in 1982. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
All-new special features: Rydell sing-along: rock along with your favorite Greast songs; 11 deleted / extended / alternate scenes; DVD launch party, a collection of memorable moments from the 25th anniversary DVD launch party; Grease memories from John and Olivia; the moves behind the music; thunder roadsters. Special features not rated.
Based on the original musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
Originally released as motion picture in 1978 (c1977).
Director of photography, Bill Butler; choreographer, Patricia Birch; editor, John F. Burnett.
John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn.
It's love when a greaser falls for a good girl in this classic musical depicting young life in the fifties.
Rating: PG.
DVD ; widescreen.
Dialogue in English or French ; closed-captioned.