Having a new work, Curly McClain, a courageous and handsome ranch hand, who works with a farmer and falls fall his beautiful daughter, as he manages to win her through singing, who struggles against facing a rude guy that plans to ruin their relationship.
This rousing film version of the massively influential and, in its day, revolutionary Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical preserves both the magnificent songs and the key Agnes DeMille choreography.
The wide screen used for the Todd-AO process adds production scope and visual grandeur, capturing a vista of blue sky and green prairie that can be breathtaking.
The film is so richly layered that multiple viewings become compulsive -- you think it's all there in front of you, but every time you revisit it, you notice something more, and finish with a desire to go back again.
