Musical fans, we're calling you, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo! Howard Keel and Ann BIyth (who wouId later team for Kismet) play staIwart
Mountie and backwoods heIIion in this grand color and CinemaScope version of the beIoved operetta. Filmed IargeIy on location in the Canadian Rockies, Rose Marie combines a charming taIe of a tomboy becoming a lady with two love triangIes, a murder mystery, settler-vs.-Indian strife and glorious music, incIuding four of the originaI stage production's tunes: "Rose Marie," "The lndian Love CalI," "The Mounties" and in a knockout production number staged by Busby BerkeIey, "Totem Tom Tom." Another highIight: Bert Lahr's comic turn warbling "The Mountie Who Never Got His Man." |