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Pal Joey
Directed by
George Sidney
Not Rated
1957
1h 51m
Musical
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Romance
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6.6
89%
60%
6.2
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Joey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.
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Cast of Pal Joey
Rita Hayworth
Vera Simpson
Frank Sinatra
Joey Evans
Kim Novak
Linda English
Barbara Nichols
Gladys
Bobby Sherwood
Ned Galvin
Hank Henry
Mike Miggins
Elizabeth Patterson
Mrs. Casey
Hermes Pan
Choreographer at Dress Rehearsal (uncredited)
John Alban
Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
Leota Lorraine
Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Waiter (uncredited)
Leoda Richards
Club Patron (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
Robin Morse
Herb - Bartender (uncredited)
Robert Reed
Boyfriend (uncredited)
Jane Chung
Flower Lady (uncredited)
George Sidney
Director
Pal Joey Ratings & Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Sumner Rand
Pal Joey...contains the best score Rodgers and Hart ever turned out for a Broadway show, and Frank Sinatra really does it justice.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
Columbia has given the film a slick and lavish production and Sinatra does full justice to "There's A Small Hotel," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "I Could Write a Book," and "Do It the Hard Way."
Times-Picayune
Irvine J. Vidacovich Jr.
Actor-crooner Sinatra was probably the only star who could play Joey on the screen, and with Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak providing the curves - well, why elaborate.
Toledo Blade
Ray Oviatt
...this is a pretty tangy show retaining, within the limits of motion picture propriety, the earthiness of Mr. O'Hara's book.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
The show is saved by Frank Sinatra, who does a tremendous job in the title role. Pal Joey was a hoofer in the play, and Sinatra does not dance a step in the film, but somehow he crowds the screen with rhythm every time he moves.
New York Times
A.H. Weiler
There is no doubt that this is largely Mr. Sinatra's show. As the amiable grifter with an iron ego, he projects a distinctly bouncy likable personality into an unusual role.
Variety
Variety Staff
Pal Joey is a strong, funny entertainment.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
The film...also throws in a lot of Rodgers & Hart tunes that weren't in the original, but with Frank Sinatra singing such reliable R & H hits as "There's a Small Hotel," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," etc., no one should complain about origin.
Houston Chronicle
Mildred Stockard
"Pal Joey" is" beautifully staged, with one of America's loveliest cities, San Francisco, providing the backdrop, and familiar Rodgers and Hart tunes...
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
"Pal Joey" is bright, smart and ingenious up to its last few minutes. It is also a racy and ribald screen show. Audiences will, in the main, find the picture, unusually entertaining, though they will probably not feel especially inspired.
San Francisco Chronicle
Paine Knickerbocker
"Pal Joey"...is a fairy tale-a fairy tale told by the wicked stepmother-and if finally she has an irrational moment of sentimentality, so that Kim and Sinatra may walk off together, one cannot trumpet too loudly his disappointment at her lack of logic.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Myles Standish
The movie is warm, vivid, and full of humor. It is sophisticated and realistic enough in its tarnished atmosphere, and some of its dialogue has a blue tinge which is glided over smoothly, but it is not coldly cynical.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
"Pal Joey" is sophisticated fun - there's sex and glamor and smart dialogue for close to two hours and your only complaint is that the film finishes so soon.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bruce Galphin
The role is tailor-made for Sinatra, and he plays it to the hilt. In fact, the picture has so much to recommend it that the viewer can forget the plot follows the well worn formula of bad-guy-meets-good-girl-and-reforms.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Will Jones
All the good lines, though, and the good songs are Sinatra's, and the part has the appearance of a pleasant, comfortable walk-through.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinée
I didn't think the choreography very impressive, but the script is bright and breezy, and frequently funny in an impudent sort of way, the music familiar but smoothly arranged.
Detroit Free Press
Helen Bower
The production directed by George Sidney has lots of glitter and pace.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
Quite apart from singing, Sinatra captured the bounce and strut of Joey with all his irrepressible urges, his gimlet eye and flip charm.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Rodgers and Hart's pioneering bitter musical...was considerably softened for its 1957 screen version. A pity, because the cast-Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Rita Hayworth-might have been brilliant.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Flawed, but see it for Rita.
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