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CREDITS
1938, 121 minutes, B&W.
Producer, William Anthony McGuire; Director, Robert Z. Leonard; Screenplay, Isobel Dawn, Boyce DeGaw; Cinematography, Oliver Marsh; Choreography, Albertina Rasch.
CAST
Mary Robbins, Jeanette MacDonald; Ramerez/Lieutenant Johnson, Nelson Eddy; Sheriff Jack Rance, Walter Pidgeon; Mosquito, Leo Carrillo; Alabama, Buddy Ebsen; Trinidad Joe, Olin Howland; Father Sienna, H.B. Warner; Minstrel Joe, Cliff Edwards; The Governor, Monty Wooley; Nina Martinez, Priscilla Lawson; Nick, Billy Bevan; Uncle Davy, Charles Grapewin; The General, Noah Beery, Sr.; Pedro, Leonard Penn; Sonora Slim, Bob Murphy; The Professor, Brandon Tynan; Young Mary, Jeanne Ellis; Yowkle, Ynez Seabury.
SONGS
Mariache; Sun-Up to Sun-Down; Shadows on the Moon; Soldiers of Fortune; The Wind In the Trees; Senorita; The West Ain't Wild Anymore; Who Are We to Say by Sigmund Romberg and Gus Kahn; Liebestraum (Dream of Love) by Franz Liszt, lyrics by Gus Kahn; Ave Maria.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"Cowpokes from all around agree. Ain't nobody like Mary, the tomboy they call 'the girl.' She's as much at ease serving a slug of whiskey as she is trilling a tune. And when it comes to playing a hand of cards to save the neck of the bandit she loves, Mary does as any cowgirl would. She cheats. . .But Sheriff Rance turns the twosome into a triangle. He's got an eye for Mary. And nothing would please him more than to hold a hanging for Ramerez."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Videotape
NOTES
"The miscasting of Miss MacDonald, aligned to an indifferent Sigmund Romberg-Gus Kahn score, hardly made for scintillating entertainment, and the oft-told story - of a tomboyish saloon owner who undergoes a process of refinement after encountering the bandit Ramirez (Eddy) - seemed pretty stale by 1938."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"This musical mustanger finds the stars not only out of their element, but hemmed in by a two hour melange of the great outdoors, Mexican bandits, early Spanish-Californian atmosphere, and musical boredom. . .a spotty entry."
- Variety
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