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Rose Marie (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1954 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mervyn LeRoy

Written By:
Otto A. Harbach
Oscar Hammerstein II

Actors:
Ann Blyth ..... Rose Marie Lemaitre
Howard Keel ..... Capt. Mike Malone
Fernando Lamas ..... James Severn Duval
Bert Lahr ..... Barney McCorkle
Marjorie Main ..... Lady Jane Dunstock
Joan Taylor ..... Wanda
Ray Collins ..... Insp. Appleby
Chief Yowlachie ..... Black Eagle

Synopsis:

1954's Rose Marie is the third film version of the 1924 Otto Harbach-Oscar Hammerstein-Rudolph Frinl operetta of the same name. Though not a completely faithful adaptation, this version is closer to the original than the (admittedly enjoyable) Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald version of 1936. Ann Blyth stars as Rose Marie Lemaitre, a hoydenish French-Canadian lass who is 'tamed' by cheerful mountie Mike Malone (Howard Keel). At first, Mike is only interested in using Rose Marie to capture her sweetheart, renegade trapper Duval (Fernando Lamas), but eventually he falls in love with her, and she with him. Counterpointing the romantic main plot are the comic antics of Bert Lahr, who elucidates his sorry lot in life with the song 'I'm the Mountie Who Never Gets His Man.' The original Rudy Friml score is well in evidence, along with several new Friml compositions and a few extra tunes penned by Georgie Stoll and Herbert Baker. There's also a remarkable 'Indian sacrifice' production number spotlighting a young Rita Moreno. Original Cinemascope prints of Rose Marie included a nine-minute prologue, wherein conductor Alfred Wallenstein led the MGM orchestra in a rendition of 'Poet and Peasant Overture' (this was evidently inspired by the similar symphonic prologue which opened 20th Century Fox's How to Marry a Millionaire).

Tomboy Rose Marie Lemaitre, the orphaned ward of Mountie Mike Malone, falls in love with him, and he with her. But when she goes to 'learn to be a lady', she meets outlaw trapper James Duval, who also falls in love with her. But Duval is in a dispute with the local Native American chief Black Eagle, and soon Black Eagle is murdered.

In the backwoods of Western Canada a woman falls for a trppaer who is being pursued by a Mountie, who, in turn, is being pursued by the amorous daughter of a local tribal chieftain.

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