this paramount version or ripoff of oklahoma . or annie get your gun or calamity jane isn not all that unusual or innovative . the marketing and intro comment may be there to salvage what be really a pretty bad movie musical western shot on a soundstage and like a live tv show . i do not find the use of the background cyclorama and lit in various scene with yellow and or pink and or red and or . all that innovative . a noted and it look more to me like a movie that be produce on a tv budget represent all soundstage and with minimal set back by the lighted cycs . ( compare to new face ( of 1952 ) . the actor come off reasonably well and though . and this style be much good realize when paramount shot lil abner in 1959. of couorse and this movie suggest the often repeat question represent what be they think .