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Must see for historical content.First off its a "G"rated old school hollywood musical that they really don't make anymore.Almost every 5 to 10 minutes the dialog breaks into wonderful Roger and Hammerstein music score.It's corny at times but it does stay in your head.Second the story is easy yet moral,again simple by todays morality and thats sad.Todays morality that is.Finally,truly well done both on screen acting and singing and dancing and behind the scenes production wise.The mix of location vs lot settings is hardly noticeable if at all.
Now the reason we take 1 star off is because s good as it is,it's dated by that goodness.Corny is square today and there is not one black performer.Released in 1955 that film reminds us that there were 2 film industries back then as segregation was still the law in many places.We don't notice that as much is earlier films but the 50's were "the good old days"Rock and Roll and yet,even as baseball player Jackie Robinson was making inroads,performers like Paul Robeson were not.Plus at 145 minutes,its a mite to long.
Almost all the cast are deceased today but for me I must mention two of them.First Rod Steiger as Jud Fry,the bad guy is almost TOO bad for this movie. Truly one of the best actors that ever was.Second Eddie Albert as Ali Hakim,the traveling "Persian" peddler is funny as he struggles with both the accent and trying to"americanize"one of our biggest threats today(but not then)It's hard not to see the difference in times just within that character.You don't have to be"gay"to like show tunes,especially in a movie such as this.Trailer URL follows the pix as well as a brief IMDB summary below that really does cover the whole plot.A bucket list movie for sure.
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with an evil ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6uD9-aLCps
Now the reason we take 1 star off is because s good as it is,it's dated by that goodness.Corny is square today and there is not one black performer.Released in 1955 that film reminds us that there were 2 film industries back then as segregation was still the law in many places.We don't notice that as much is earlier films but the 50's were "the good old days"Rock and Roll and yet,even as baseball player Jackie Robinson was making inroads,performers like Paul Robeson were not.Plus at 145 minutes,its a mite to long.
Almost all the cast are deceased today but for me I must mention two of them.First Rod Steiger as Jud Fry,the bad guy is almost TOO bad for this movie. Truly one of the best actors that ever was.Second Eddie Albert as Ali Hakim,the traveling "Persian" peddler is funny as he struggles with both the accent and trying to"americanize"one of our biggest threats today(but not then)It's hard not to see the difference in times just within that character.You don't have to be"gay"to like show tunes,especially in a movie such as this.Trailer URL follows the pix as well as a brief IMDB summary below that really does cover the whole plot.A bucket list movie for sure.
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with an evil ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
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