My 150 Favorite Movies - #127

Guys and Dolls (1955)

Well, they never really opened this one up beyond the confines of the Broadway play, but it doesn't matter, because it's blessed with the best score ever (IMHO), by Frank Loesser. It also doesn't hurt that it stars the gorgeously sublime Marlon Brando, the sublimely gorgeous Jean Simmons, Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, and Broadway's original Miss Adelaide, Vivian Blaine. Based on
Damon Runyon's short stories concerning gangsters, gamblers, and assorted denizens of New York's underworld, this story is about as New York as it gets. Here's a clip of the incomparable Stubby Kaye and cast members singing, Fugue for Tinhorns.