DVD Review: The Harvey Girls

(1945, Color, 101 min.)
Director: George Sidney

Look who's on the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe!

Vittles, songs and dances are amply ladeled out when Judy Garland headlines The Harvey Girls, a joyous musical slice of Americana celebrating the restaurants that brought extra helpings of civilization to Old West rail passengers. Highlights include Garland holding saloon patrons at jittery gunpoint to retrieve stolen beefsteaks, Ray Bolger's loose-limbed comic hoofing, Angela Lansbury's stylish wickedness as a saloon singer and the On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe romp (nabbing it the 1946 Best Song Academy Award) that's "deservedly famous, one of the most triumphant sequences in screen-musical history" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). All aboard!

Special Features

3 deleted musical numbers, My Intuition and the original and reprise of March of the Doagies

On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe sequence remixed in stereo

Feature-length audio commentary by Director George Sidney

Singsong express audio track trainload of scoring session music cues

Interactive Menus

Theatrical Trailer

Scene Access

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish and Portuguese
Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Standard Version presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition
Film Studio: MGM
DVD Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: April 30, 2001
UPC: 012569534827