The considerable talents of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald are not enough to overcome the slow-moving direction and ho-hum screenplay that weigh down this fourth film based on David Belasco's play of the same name. (Previous versions were released in 1915, 1923, and 1930, and Giacomo
Puccini based an opera on the story.) MacDonald plays Mary Robbins, the owner of a rough-and-tumble saloon in a mining town out West, and Eddy takes the role of a bandit named Ramerez, who masquerades as a cavalry lieutenant to win her love. When the wounded Ramerez is pursued by town sheriff Jack
Rance (Walter Pidgeon), who also happens to be in love with Mary, she bargains with t...
Released:
1938
Rated:
NR
Length:
120 mins