Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0
No consensus yet.
Release Date: Jan 1, 1946 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride. Upon arriving in New Mexico, Garland discovers that her husband-to-be is the town drunk. She cuts her losses and takes a job at the local Harvey restaurant, an establishment which endeavors to bring a little civilization and class to the wide open spaces. Harvey's operation is challenged by saloon-owner John Hodiak, corrupt-judge Preston S. Foster, and local-madam Angela
Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.
Western, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
Edmund Beloin, Nathaniel Curtis, Harry Crane, James O'Hanlon, Samson Raphaelson
Jan 1, 1946 Wide
Apr 30, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
All Critics (10) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (0) | DVD (12)
Though this creaky musical hasn't aged well, its peak moments are delightful: Dorothy and her Scarecrow reunited, "On the Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe" and Garland's gift for physical comedy.
Not quite top line Garland, but very much fun with a good score.
Perhaps not a musical for the ages, but a larkish and exuberant joy all the same.
One classic song does not a good musical make
...this musical-comedy Western holds a few delights of its own, not the least of which is its beautiful Technicolor transfer to DVD.
The story and songs are reminders of a gentler, more innocent age that clearly never existed but was fun imagining in the movies.
Even lower case Judy is better then most and this has a young Angela Lansbury as well
June 20, 2007
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