Review of Guys and Dolls - Starring Marlon Brando - Gene Simmons - Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine
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"Guys and Dolls" is a charming movie based on the Broadway musical of the same name. The movie stars Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit, operator of a floating crap game in New York City in the 1950s. It also stars Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson, a high roller with lots of luck, Jean Simmons as Sgt. Sarah Brown, a young woman in charge of a mission, and Vivian Blaine as Adelaide, a nightclub singer and Nathan's fiancee of 14 years.
At the beginning of the film, Nathan is in trouble because he and his associates are unable to find a suitable location for their floating crap game, and Lt. Brannigan is hot on their trail. His only option is to pay $1000 to have the game in the Biltmore garage, but he doesn't have the money. In order to try to obtain it, he decides to bet Sky $1000 that he can't take Sarah to Havana with him. Sky finds he's hard-pressed to win this bet, but after much persuasion, he gets her to agree to come with him in exchange for a dozen sinners to be delivered by him to her mission.
In Havana, Sky and Sarah end up falling in love. Once they return, they find the mission taken over by a group of gamblers led by Nathan. They rush out once they discover Lt. Brannigan is looking for them there. Sarah is heartbroken, thinking Sky was responsible. The gang decides to continue their crap game at a new location under the sewers of New York. Then Sky gets a brilliant idea of betting the rest of the gamblers $1000 each against their souls, so that if he wins they all have to agree to come to Sarah's mission. He wins and they all arrive shortly after midnight, making good on Sky's earlier promise to Sarah. Sarah protects the gamblers from Lt. Brannigan when he comes looking for them. Sky also tells Nathan that he lost the bet and pays him $1000.
The movie ends with a double wedding at a busy street corner in New York City, in which Sky marries Sarah and Nathan marries Adelaide.
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