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Gene Krupa Story

( Catalog Number 50706 )
(1.33:1) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Gene Krupa Story
1959 - 101 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Sal Mineo, who'd previously registered well as the lead in the TV drama Drummer Man, essays a strikingly similar role in The Gene Krupa Story. The film details Krupa's troubled home life: (he wanted to be a musician; his father wanted him to become a priest), his rise to fame as drummer for the Benny Goodman orchestra, his years on top as a bandleader, and his ongoing problems with drug abuse. A fictional romantic subplot is grafted onto the proceeding involving clearly defined "good" and "bad" girls Ethel Maguire (Susan Kohner) and Dorissa Dinelli (Susan Oliver). Yvonne Craig has an entertaining scene as an anachronistically garbed good-time girl. Craig would later recall that, at the time of shooting The Gene Krupa Story, she weighed more than Sal Mineo, and that in the scene where he's required to lift her off the floor, she virtually had to lift him. Mineo, a drummer of some accomplishment, convincingly wields the sticks during the musical highlights, though the trickier drum solos were dubbed in by Gene Krupa himself. Real-life recording stars Anita O'Day, Red Nichols, Bobby Troup and Shelley Manne make cameo appearances.

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Cast for Gene Krupa Story

Sal Mineo
Susan Kohner
James Darren
Susan Oliver
Yvonne Craig
Lawrence Dobkin
Celia Lovsky
Red Nichols
Bobby Troup
Anita O'Day
Shelly Manne
Buddy Lester

Crew for Gene Krupa Story

Producer Orin Jannings
Producer Philip A. Waxman
Writer Orin Jannings
Cinematographer Charles Lawton Jr.
Composer Leith Stevens
Director Don Weis
Editor Edwin H. Bryant
Editor Maurice Wright

Feature Details

Title: Gene Krupa Story
Feature Release Date: 1959
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 101 Minutes
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV

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LD Release Date: 18 Apr 1995
Catalog Number: 50706
UPC: 043396507067
Publisher: Columbia Tri-Star Video

Diameter: 12"
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 50706-N
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Gene Krupa Story

( Catalog Number 50706 )
(1.33:1) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Gene Krupa Story
1959 - 101 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Sal Mineo, who'd previously registered well as the lead in the TV drama Drummer Man, essays a strikingly similar role in The Gene Krupa Story. The film details Krupa's troubled home life: (he wanted to be a musician; his father wanted him to become a priest), his rise to fame as drummer for the Benny Goodman orchestra, his years on top as a bandleader, and his ongoing problems with drug abuse. A fictional romantic subplot is grafted onto the proceeding involving clearly defined "good" and "bad" girls Ethel Maguire (Susan Kohner) and Dorissa Dinelli (Susan Oliver). Yvonne Craig has an entertaining scene as an anachronistically garbed good-time girl. Craig would later recall that, at the time of shooting The Gene Krupa Story, she weighed more than Sal Mineo, and that in the scene where he's required to lift her off the floor, she virtually had to lift him. Mineo, a drummer of some accomplishment, convincingly wields the sticks during the musical highlights, though the trickier drum solos were dubbed in by Gene Krupa himself. Real-life recording stars Anita O'Day, Red Nichols, Bobby Troup and Shelley Manne make cameo appearances.

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Cast for Gene Krupa Story

Sal Mineo
Susan Kohner
James Darren
Susan Oliver
Yvonne Craig
Lawrence Dobkin
Celia Lovsky
Red Nichols
Bobby Troup
Anita O'Day
Shelly Manne
Buddy Lester

Crew for Gene Krupa Story

Producer Orin Jannings
Producer Philip A. Waxman
Writer Orin Jannings
Cinematographer Charles Lawton Jr.
Composer Leith Stevens
Director Don Weis
Editor Edwin H. Bryant
Editor Maurice Wright

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