i be really on the fence about this movie . though the score be wonderful and melodic and it be often interrupt by cheap directorial trick . the ballad isn not it romantic would have be lovely if it have be perform straight and with no flounce . instead it be truncate and and for me and ruin by cinematic trick . lover and a superb richard rodgers waltz and be sing to a horse and the late jeanette macdonald halt her rendition to make joke with the animal . there be many other example of film firework that fizzle . perhaps mamoulian be anxious to show how a movie musical could be superior to the stage and but for me all that emerges be unwelcome and dated film artifice that serve only to annoy . i get the feeling that mamoulian do not really like the score and try his best to submerge it . though i be still on the fence and i really detest this film .