Approved | 1h 35min | Musical | 1 April 1952
Director: Claude Binyon
Stars: Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Adele Jergens, Robert Merrill.
Charles O'Curran ... choreographer
Watched online; ok print for small screen.
RM & AJ play swindlers, but I don't remember anything about they're being gangsters. And they don't swindle her.
Very much an integrated musical, where almost all songs describe character's thoughts/feelings or circumstances. 11 songs in the Soundtracks with no performers.
Also very much a "meh" musical. Because it's about bumpkins (not hillbillies, just farm folk a train-ride from nearest big city Chicago), it's country-ish music, and because we're back in the horse-drawn days, it's not modern. However, the songs are all Livingston and Evans, so it's a '50's version of horse-y days. (They also authored Buttons and Bows, for instance.) None of the songs were familiar to me.
Although there's a choreographer, he was really only needed for a "nightclub" number in Chicago. So there's not much dancing. Or none to get excited about.
Perlberg-Seaton Prod., distr. Paramount, dir. Binyon; 6
