The musical
Western from 1953 starring Doris Day as Calamity Jane with Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie and Philip Carey. Sees Jane agree to bring a big female star from the city to her town
of Deadwood. Jane is very much a Tomboy and dresses as a soldier, shoots
and drinks with the men and wants to be accepted as one of the boys. The film
follows her as she discovers more about what she wants from life and why being
a woman can be good.
This film is a
lot of fun and the songs including "The Deadwood Stage (Whip Crack Away)" and "Just Blew in From the Windy City" are catchy, memorable
and I am sure you will have heard them before. Musicals are a strange
type of film as they can be more about the music than the story, this I
think can be an issue for some people who are looking to watch a film rather
than segments of music videos. The older Musicals including this really use the
songs well to help emphasise the story and be a set piece within the film.
Musicals are a
genre of film that I have naturally avoided but having seen this and recently
seeing "Singin in the Rain" for the first time and really enjoying it, I am going
to try and watch more Musicals. Overall this is a strong 3 stars I would
recommend checking if nothing else to see a solid film star in Doris Day.
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