The Broadway musical on which this film is based may display oodles of charm, but if so, the film adaptation captures none of it.
Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel prove once again that they were singers first and actors second, and exhibit less than compelling screen presence. It wouldn't matter if they created fireworks together, because they would be overwhelmed anyway by the film's ghastly, unwieldy production design, whose sole purpose is to showcase the film's fancy 3-D technology, which of course means absolutely nothing now watching it on DVD.
Grade: D
Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel prove once again that they were singers first and actors second, and exhibit less than compelling screen presence. It wouldn't matter if they created fireworks together, because they would be overwhelmed anyway by the film's ghastly, unwieldy production design, whose sole purpose is to showcase the film's fancy 3-D technology, which of course means absolutely nothing now watching it on DVD.
Grade: D