It merges too many types of musicals, always uncertain of what tone it wishes to strike.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 24, 2025

Both Brando and Sinatra retain enough personal charm to keep Guys and Dolls moving along as the most entertaining musical from Hollywood since Singing in the Rain.

| Feb 3, 2021

A handsome and funny wide-screen version of the famous Broadway hit. It's over-long at two and a half hours but liberally loaded with laughter and sentiment in the appropriate Damon Runyon tradition.

| Oct 30, 2019

The script is perhaps even better than most of the musical numbers, crackling with the Damon Runyon-style dialogue and with the colour of the stories on which Ben Hecht based his screenplay.

| Oct 30, 2017

The showtunes are weapons-grade: especially Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat, which never fails to get any audience on its feet. A must.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 25, 2014

Joseph L Mankiewicz's adaptation of the Frank Loesser Broadway musical, itself adapted from Damon Runyon stories, looks a treat. The wonder of the film is that it combines widescreen colour and opulence with an earthy, street-level humour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2014

Brando the singing actor and Sinatra the acting singer make a remarkable pair as sharp-suited gangsters and gamblers, along with their "dolls", Vivian Blaine and the English actress Jean Simmons.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2014

Brando and Sinatra are on top form, but it's Simmons who steals the show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2014

A proper CinemaScope delight, with fabulous dialogue, wonderful tunes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2014

An escapist, sing-along joy with a winning edge of grown-up wit, making for a perfect festive season night out for anyone fond of a splash of old-school style.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 15, 2014

Ultimate odd couple Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra play charismatic cats in hats and spats on the mean (but very clean) streets of New York.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2014

Brando wasn't producer Sam Goldwyn's first choice as Sky (that was Gene Kelly) but he acquits himself outstandingly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2013

Conceivably the best picture Sam Goldwyn ever produced.

| Apr 30, 2012

A great play but just a good movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 30, 2012

Though assigned to the wrong director (Mankiewicz), the musical movie still maintains some charm, largely due to the performances of Sinatra and Brando

| Original Score: B- | Apr 12, 2011

Classic Sinatra/Brando musical is a whole lot of fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Guys and Dolls is a bangup filmusical in the topdrawer Goldwyn manner.

| Feb 4, 2009

Too talky.

| Original Score: C+ | May 2, 2007

A musical fairly glittering with intelligence and invention.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006

No one's cool enough to blow off a movie starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. Not you, not me...nobody.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2006