One of my all time favorites.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

How sad is this?

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This was not one of Jeanette MacDonald's and Nelson Eddy's best films.It's just a matter of time before the young boy Gringo finds out who sang so lovely at the camp sight. It will take years later when the two are grown up and by that time, Gringo takes the name of Ramirez and is embittered because the man who took him in is slain by settlers who thought he was out to get them. Just like the man, Gringo becomes an outlaw and steals.When Eddy is shot in the shoulder by Sheriff Walter Pidgeon, MacDonald acts like a silent screen damsel in distress. MacDonald is totally unfit for the role and Eddy again proves what a bad actor he was.While it's true that the singing is beautiful, the plot line is thin. The ending is pure Hollywood and at least Eddy survives in this picture.

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy star in this musical western with more than a little comic charm and zip. Although there are no"hits" in this musical, the songs are great and MacDonald gets to sing one of the best "Ave Marias" you'll ever hear. She also turns in one of her best comic performances as the "girl" who is rough hewn and runs a saloon in a gold mining town. A little long, but still one of the duo's best and most underrated films. Walter Pidgeon, Buddy Ebsen, Cliff Edwards, H.B. Warner, Priscilla Lawson, and Noah Beery are notable. The "Mariachi" number is nice as are a few of the songs. It amazes me that Jeanette MacDonald is so underrated as an actress. She not only has a fabulous voice, she could hold her own against any leading man and was also a charming comedienne, and she is splendid in this film.

I am writing this review after my second viewing of this movie. After my first viewing, I thought it was trash but with time and a sequestered absence, my opinion has changed and I think it is the second best of the Nelson Eddy/ Jeanette Macdonald behind only the incomparable The Naughty Marietta. For one, Nelson Eddy had learned to act, not well but okay. Jeanette gives her best performance in this movie, and that accent is impeccable. The story is good with a lot of serious dramatic scenes including a scene at a log cabin that lasts close to twenty minutes and does not drag. You could cut the music out of this movie and it would still play like a romantic drama. Most of the singing is solid as Eddy was one of the great voices of the 20th Century. Walter Pidgeon as the spurned lover does his thang and Buddy Ebsen in a supporting role of a hick walks away with the whole picture. The basic plot of the Puccini opera is retained if not mangled and Belasco's play forms the basis for this movie. All in all, suprisingly low key in style but effective at heart.

Very well defined characters faithfully portrayed by the actors. Perfectly placed musical numbers, engrossingly rendered by the supreme vocalists of their time, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. Each song melodic and memorable to this day, sixty four years later. Especially enjoyable was the voice and instrumental duet by 'Mary' and 'Alabama'...did Buddy Ebson actually play the pipe part, or was it dubbed? I have had a life-long curiosity about this aspect of the movie. Thanks for the opportunity to comment.