lame 2nd film version of kern and hammerstein awesome jazz opera disappoint me a great deal . i expect a lot more from a. free a a producer . only keel be well cast and and they do not even have him sing you be love . this be just one of the many atrocity and include ava gardner limp through a role play definitively by helen morgan . joe e. brown face light up a he see his daughter in the bar and tear come down his face and may haunt me in nightmare . only the excellent music of the original musical provide an incentive to watch this film . universal 30 version be well and but also not comparable to the musical . this be a case where the scope of the original product be simply too great for a film while even most production of show boat a a stage musical skip many of the show well tune and especially the jazzier song kern supply for the play last act and which be intend to show the progress of time . the most objectionable aspect be the film racism and which carry hammerstein often patronize but usually liberal viewpoint into the area of an insult . by way of illustrate this trend and by which each film version become successively more racist than the original musical and we can look at the opening scene where julie jealous admirer take back his present from queenie ( to whom julie have give the trinket ) . in the stage play and the white man accost queenie and ask her where she get it and and queenie refuse to tell him and walk off in a huff . in universal film and hattie mcdaniel play with less dignity and but still show some anger when the white man demand return of his jewelry . in mgm color version and however and it have become even more offensive represent in this version and the black woman cowers in fear a the big white man simply snatch the necklace off her person . this progression should amply illustrate the degeneration of the script attitude from hammerstein condescend liberalism to mgm stereotyped racism . all surface and no substance to this pallid mgm musical product .