"The Girl of the Golden West" is a silly film. Imagine....sweet and pretty Nelson Eddy plays a rogue...the adopted son of a notorious bandito! While the film is enjoyable, I just couldn't help but laugh at casting Eddy in such a rugged role.
The story begins when Mary and Ramirez (Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy) are kids out in the old west. They briefly meet and they take a liking to each other...not realizing many years later they'd meet and fall in love. But there's a problem.... Ramirez is a bandit and lives with a group of bandits...hardly the sort that sweet Mary could love. So, Ramirez poses as a soldier and woos her and they naturally fall in love. But what's to happen when she learns the truth (apart from, of course, singing!)?
This film is enjoyable and light...though I do think all the singing played a lot better back in 1938 than it does today. I didn't mind it so much...not that it's a ringing endorsement! Overall, a pleasant piece of fluff and an agreeable time-passer.
The story begins when Mary and Ramirez (Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy) are kids out in the old west. They briefly meet and they take a liking to each other...not realizing many years later they'd meet and fall in love. But there's a problem.... Ramirez is a bandit and lives with a group of bandits...hardly the sort that sweet Mary could love. So, Ramirez poses as a soldier and woos her and they naturally fall in love. But what's to happen when she learns the truth (apart from, of course, singing!)?
This film is enjoyable and light...though I do think all the singing played a lot better back in 1938 than it does today. I didn't mind it so much...not that it's a ringing endorsement! Overall, a pleasant piece of fluff and an agreeable time-passer.