let freedom ring be probably make with the best of intention and but it send out a curious mixed message in the final product . the folk at a western town where the railroad be come through be overwhelm by the arrival of immigrant railroad worker and work on the railroad be finance by robber baron edward arnold . there be a few rancher and farmer whose land stand in the railroad path and these folk be dealt with summarily by arnold hire men . one man who would not give in be lionel barrymore whose son be come home from harvard a lawyer and ready to take up the rancher cause . only nelson eddy decide the best way to fight be to go zorro on the bad guy . but other than charles butterworth no one know he the wasp ( a very interesting choice of name by the way ) . what arnold do be use the tried and true method of the political boss of the east and get the immigrant to vote . nelson idea be simple and if the immigrant only know the truth about what a bad guy arnold be and they will vote with the original settler and knock out the alien urban political machine in their midst . he kidnap newspaper editor raymond walburn and take him and the press to a mountain cave where some subversive newspaper be print and distribute . the railroad worker be a real mixed bunch of immigrant and not the irish work west or the chinese work east a history have it . it a real united nation work on arnold railroad . the worker be keep in line by foreman victor mclaglen and nelson have the unenviable task of beat some sense into him like john wayne do in the quiet man . of all the film that star jeanette and nelson and they certainly have come down in history a a duo and this be the bad of what they do at mgm . nelson be about to be hang along with barrymore for crime that be undefined at best and but certainly nothing worth be hung for . and virginia bruce who play the nelson girlfriend save the day with a rendition of my country ti of thee that the immigrant join in with . in the face of a revolt by his paid for immigrant voter and arnold quite rationally pack up and leave town to build his railroad somewhere else . i kid you not and that the end here . just what be the message and vote with the settler and lose your job with arnold . but somehow you will get by here . i do wonder some time if 20 year from after the incident of this film take place and the town a settle into a sleepy backwater of the west while some town where the railroad have come through that be now city and that the good citizen of that town haven not rethink about what nelson eddy do . if they do theyre probably run him out on a rail . nelson be of course in good voice and have a variety of concert and popular piece to sing include a ballad to the immigrant write by sigmund romberg and where else but here . the song be a heartfelt tribute from an immigrant who do make good in his adopted country . too bad it do not have a good venue . the almost platinum blonde virginia bruce i be sure be dub here . and i be sure jeanette macdonald be just a happy she wasn not accompany nelson on this trip west .