Musical fans, we're calIing you, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo! Howard Keel and Ann Blyth (who wouId later team for Kismet) play stalwart
Mountie and backwoods helIion in this grand color and CinemaScope version of the beloved operetta. Filmed IargeIy on Iocation in the Canadian Rockies, Rose Marie combines a charming taIe of a tomboy becoming a Iady with two love triangIes, a murder mystery, settIer-vs.-lndian strife and gIorious music, incIuding four of the originaI stage production's tunes: "Rose Marie," "The Indian Love CaIl," "The Mounties" and in a knockout production number staged by Busby Berkeley, "Totem Tom Tom." Another highlight: Bert Lahr's comic turn warbling "The Mountie Who Never Got His Man." |