1h 46min | Musical, Western | TV Movie 27 November 1957 | b/w (s/b color), fs
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Stars: Mary Martin, John Raitt, William O'Neal, Reta Shaw.
Ernie Flatt ... choreographer (as Ernest Flatt)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182719/
Blurry kinescope on VAI blu-ray.
Very glad they have previews of other shows VAI offers, so I can see that Lady in the Dark and Enemy Dearest looks about as good as the bootleg copies I already have. VAI charges an arm and a leg, as though they're producing Criterion collection keepsakes.
This felt very long. Some songs go on and on, repeating just when you hope they're done.
Some songs here were not used in the film with Betty Hutton and Howard Keel ('50). Unfortunately the Soundtracks for this is empty. Next time maybe build that using IBDb. Really don't want to do it now.
Some very good dancing here, particularly in the I'm an Indian number. The only Indian dancer to receive credit in IMDb is Robert Banas, who plays Joyboy in West Side Story ('61). With the makeup worn here, I probably wouldn't recognize him anyway.
Between the very poor video quality, the lack of color, and the overkilled songs, this was not fun.
NBC, dir. Donehue; 6
