Stars: Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Lee Hazlewood, Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Jr.

Summary: Nancy takes you back to the sixties with this nugget of pop culture extravagance. Nancy and company sing and dance their way through some amazing routines and, along the way, her brother shows up driving her '57 T Bird. As a bonus, the original Royal Crown Cola commercials are left in. What more could you want

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Network television was already wrestling with a generation gap and the rowdy cultural upheaval posed by rock when American network NBC aired this 1967 special for Nancy Sinatra, with younger viewers increasingly tuning out the typical videotaped studio productions that typified TV specials. To sidestep those conventions (and, one suspects, to showcase the star's modest performing gifts to best advantage), director Jack Haley Jr. shot Movin' with Nancyon film in and around Los Angeles, yielding sequences that anticipate the visual experiments that would characterise music videos more than a decade later.

The results are intriguing: for Sinatra's fans, the chance to see her in all her leggy, mini-skirted glory will be irresistible, but amateur pop sociologists will be at least as fascinated by the period details and some unwittingly bizarre undercurrents. For the putative teen viewers of the day, there's the psychedelic montage of "Some Velvet Morning", one of several duets with Sinatra's frequent partner at that time, Lee Hazlewood (a country-tinged, B-team Sonny to her blonde variation on Cher), interweaving the two singers on horseback and making much out of bewildering references to Euripides' Phaedra. For the grown-ups, there are segments teaming her with Dean Martin (awkwardly addressed as her "god-uncle") and Sammy Davis Jr., as well as a reverential sequence in which she caresses oversized posters of her famous father (including a still from his then-current crime feature, Tony Rome, depicting him with a menacing pistol) that raises all sorts of knotty psychiatric issues.

The mix of Rat Pack glitz, flower power, and mainstream pop gets an added kick with Day-Glo fashions cut to Carnaby Street lines, vintage commercials for Royal Crown Cola ("It's a mad, mad, mad, mad cola!"), and pop covers that likewise lock in a sense of temporal dislocation as Nancy gamely tackles "Up, Up and Away" (in a hot air balloon, of course) and "Who Will Buy?" from Oliver!, here goosed with go-go powered dancing. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	Full Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Original RC Cola Television Spots, Exclusive Behind The Scenes Footage, Audio Commentary By Nancy Sinatra And Jack Haley Jnr
Subtitles:	None
Year:	1967
Release Date:	September 25, 2000
Runtime:	60 minutes
Certification:	Exempt.
Catalogue Number:	I X 9632 B T U K D
Keywords:	With, Music, Easy, Sinatra, Nancy, Performing, Mor, Listening, Arts, Popular, Movin'
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts