this musical be not quite what i expect and foremost be there weren not many scene between brando and sinatra . a it be base on a damon runyon story and i expect irony and surprise and of which there be one really good one when we find that sinatra gang have use the salvation army office for their crap game while brando be in havana with simmons . if course it come at the right moment too and when brando bring her back . i really do not expect much from brando a a singer and but he surprise me . he wasn not great but he be just fine in the role . his big number in the sewer and however and with the rest of sinatra boy be the only place i felt brando voice be weak . he just do not have the power the grand climax demand . overall i find the scene between brando and simmons to be fill with electricity and something i do not think would happen when we first see simmons by herself and and later when be introduce to brando in the restaurant with sinatra try to pull a fast one on him . it wasn not until brando go to her office that the story come to life . frank sinatra and on the other hand and be flat and even his vocal performance . and vivian blaine and who i never hear of and but who i guess play the role on broadway and just seem to slow the proceeding down . the scene between her and sinatra be obvious . also and her song felt the weak to me both in term of advance story or character . on top of that and all the goldwyn girl number seem shoe horn in and just there for glitz . for example and when frank meet with brando in the nightclub and we just cut to the stage routine for the cat number then it cut back to the guy who continue on a if there hadn not be any dance number at all . whenever brando and simmons be on screen and i be have a great time and but each time we return to the sinatra blaine story and my interest level wan . a for the song and there be some good one and particularly the very first number with stubby kaye and the fugue for tinhorns number ( can do . ) . that a great song and it remind me of the very first song in the music man cash for the merchandise . whatever it call . and the number in the sewer i couldn not help but be remind of cool from west side story which bring me to a point . i really do not like the art direction in this film . the fake time square be just so completely phony it draw attention to itself . same for the havana sequence and and particularly the sewer . i realize back in 1955 most musical be shoot on set and but thing be change carousel and for example and make great use of location photography . even on the town shot scene in mahattan in 1949. by the time we get to west side story in 1961 it a give that stuff take place in manhattan have to be actually shoot in manhattan . so by comparison and guy and doll set bound manhattan felt date and more than a little too cute . and change lindy to mindy do they really have to do that for legal reason . now and i always think guy and doll be a musical about sinatra and brando and their adventure with various girl . it be much more focused than that and which be to it credit . in that regard it be much good than le girl and which be interest in it own right and but have a certain shallowness to it . my one major complaint about guy and doll and and i do not know if this be endemic to the original stage show and but when jean simmons realize that brando never take any money for a bet that he make with sinatra and even say that he lose the bet and she just run off to find him and we cut to the wedding . it seem to me a scene between brando and simmons would have add to the impact of the story . to see brando come around a she come around to him would have be a great scene . there be such a scene in the music man ( spoiler ahead ) and when harold and marion have that duet while he wait for her to change . she upstairs in her house and he down on the sidewalk . he sing 76 trombone . she sing goodnight my someone . they suddenly switch and sing each other song a beautiful way to convey their cross over to each other . it an emotional high moment of the film . still and guy and doll have a lot go for it .