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This movie is a darn shame. Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Cyd Charisse and Angela Lansbury in an Old West setting should have been a dream come true. Instead it's a lackluster movie with a forced romance. All of the songs are weak and forgettable with the exception of The Atchinson, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Knowing that, the filmmakers put strains of it in virtually every other song. Bolger gets one fun (but unspectacular) dance sequence, and Charisse's one dance is more flowery than impressive. The rest of the numbers are mostly a matter of Look At Us Wave!, Look At Our Costumes!, with no dancing and very little singing. The morality play has not aged well, as a town is divided between "virtue" (the virginal Harvey Girls) and "sin" (the saloon with its "dancers"). Every moment of the plot is permeated with the single unspoken notion that Nice Girls Don't. Puh-leeze. Normally I'm very forgiving of old-fashioned plots in old-fashioned musicals, but in this case, there's simply nothing else there.
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