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Overview

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7.0/10   1,128 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Samuel Hopkins Adams (novel) and
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Release Date:
18 January 1946 (USA) more
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Tagline:
It's Blazing, Blistering Romance . . . in the wide open spaces !
Plot:
On a train trip West to become a mail order bride Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
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A weak offering with under-used talent more (36 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Judy Garland ... Susan Bradley
John Hodiak ... Ned Trent

Ray Bolger ... Chris Maule

Angela Lansbury ... Em
Preston Foster ... Judge Sam Purvis
Virginia O'Brien ... Alma from Ohio
Kenny Baker ... Terry O'Halloran
Marjorie Main ... Sonora Cassidy
Chill Wills ... H.H. Hartsey
Selena Royle ... Miss Bliss

Cyd Charisse ... Deborah Andrews
Ruth Brady ... Ethel
Jack Lambert ... Marty Peters
Edward Earle ... Jed Adams
Morris Ankrum ... Rev. Claggett
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Additional Details

Runtime:
102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Trivia:
Virginia Davis's final feature film. more
Goofs:
Continuity: During the fire at the Harvey House while fighting the bad guys, Ned Trent has a tablecloth wrapped around his neck. Seconds later it's draped over his left shoulder. more
Quotes:
Marty Peters: Where do ya come from, Tex?
Chris Maule: Massachusetts.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Biography: Andy Williams" (2003) more
Soundtrack:
The Wild, Wild West more

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7 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
A weak offering with under-used talent, 10 June 2000
6/10
Author: Dehlia from New York

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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