5 Pennies (1959)

5 Pennies: Directed by Melville Shavelson. With Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino. Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun.

“… but I could never see the movie yet. Still, it partly saved my life when I was dying of a very bad pneumonia and was floating in between the two worlds. I didnu0026#39;t yet understand English, but the soundtrack of The Five Pennies played on the vinyl record (donu0026#39;t ask me how my Finnish parents got to possess it) went through my conscience and kept me on the living side. I can still sing one voice of the lullaby hearing Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong singing the other voices in my head. Iu0026#39;m lucky to be able to hear them without any technical device.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNow, by a coincidence I fall on this movie I never saw – so important in my life – on VHS / NTSC in Amazon. I live in Europe… No way being able to see it. Do you really mean that thereu0026#39;s no DVD of it yet ? I seem to be not the only one wishing for it.”