Load of rubbish!!

i must have seen a different film!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The cannon of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy films have created a cult following over the years, and that fan base is well deserved. Of their movies, only one, "Rose Marie", was remade, although it is quite different from their version, which was a remake as well. All three versions take place in the Canadian Rockies and focus the love a rugged Mountie has for the titled character. In this version, Rose Marie (the lovely Ann Blyth) is a tomboy who is "Free to Be Free" until Mountie Howard Keel has her introduced to hotel proprietor Marjorie Main with (get this!) the purpose of turning her into a lady. Keel falls in love with the transformed Blyth, but she only loves trapper Fernando Lamas who is wanted for murder.Unlike MacDonald and Eddy's version, it is not Rose Marie and the Mountie who sing the famous "Indian Love Call"; Lamas's trapper gets that honor, and it is one of the most beautiful duets on screen. (The same year, Jane Powell and Vic Damone did a beautiful duet of "Will You Remember?" from "Maytime" in the Sigmund Romberg bio pic "Deep in My Heart", making three Eddy/MacDonald duets recreated on screen that year, the other being "Deep in My Heart's" "Lover Come Back to Me" from "New Moon"). Keel gets to sing the rousing "Here Come the Mounties", but unfortunately doesn't share a duet with Blyth. That would be saved for Jane Powell and the similar backwoods setting of the same year's masterpiece "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers".If the thought of Main as a Canadian Henry Higgins doesn't make you laugh, then pair her "Ma Kettle" with "Cowardly Lion" Bert Lahr as an aging Mountie fighting off her advances. A cut song between the two ("Love and Kisses") was on MGM's soundtrack album and later was part of the original "That's Entertainment Part III" additional footage tape of numbers not used for that documentaries theatrical release. Lahr's "The Mountie Who Never Got His Man" (written for the movie) did make it into the released print, and as a nod to his "Wizard of Oz" fans, Lahr utilized some of the same comic grimaces and even some sounds that resemble his lion's roar.An opulent Indian dance ("Tom Tom Totem") was staged by Busby Berkley, and if you can get past the obvious backdrop, you will enjoy it. The fact that movie studios were still making operettas in the mid 1950's is pretty amazing in itself, and the result for "Rose Marie" is one of delightful adult romance.

Aren't singing Mounties the first sign of the Apocalypse? This is a below average standard MGM musical, from the period when the genre was already dying.Problem is that the movie really lacks a good story. It's not until the second halve that the movie is finally starting to show some progress and some plot lines but it's then already too late to still really make something good of the movie.The love story, which is always essential in this type of movies, isn't much interesting which is due to the characters and actors that portray them. Ann Blyth is mostly irritating with her thick overdone French-Canadian accent, that by the way seems to come and go randomly. She also doesn't look convincing enough as a woman who feels at home in the wilderness. She looks far too timid and pretty for that. Also hard to imaging that she would really fall and really become happy with such a 'criminal' as Duval.The character treatment is also quite poor. Seemingly important characters just suddenly disappear out of the movie for too long and basically all characters are extreme stereotypes.You know it's one of those musicals in which the characters just suddenly burst into singing, in the middle of some dialog, to express their thoughts and feelings. This always have been quite ridicules in my book.The movie does get extra points for its environment. The Canadian natures serves as a beautiful backdrop for this movie!Not a complete waste of time but still a below average late MGM attempt.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

I saw this movie when I was just entering my teen years... I loved it then and I would dearly love to see it again and own a copy of the movie. I can still hear that song Rose Marie in my head. I have the soundtrack record done on the smaller format 33rpm and don't even have a turntable to play it on so I can put the music on tape or CD...The movie had two of my favorite actors of that time. Howard Keel - my all time favorite actor/singer. Though I could not watch him when he was on Dallas.. Fernando Lamas was also a favorite and I loved him in this movie although I didn't think he could sing all that great. I have been checking for several years now and no luck so far. I keep hoping I will live long enough to see it again. Cheers All JE

I well remember seeing this movie when it was shown in New Zealand about 1955. It was an enjoyable movie and my desire to own it on DVD was only heightened when I recently saw it on Turner Classic Movies. Regrefully most TCM movies in New Zealand are a bit blurry and the sound track had lots of 50/60 cycle hum in it. It would be nice if it was to be released on DVD particularly if a little care was taken in restoring the visual print and the sound track.The original sound track for Rosemarie was a magnetic 3 channel across the screen and 1 surround channel. With modern sound restoration and enhancement equipment that is available today, there is no reason why this could not be restored to quiet a presentable 5.1 sound track.It disappoints me to see many of the fine old movies reissued with excellent visual print but little care having been taken on the sound restoration when as a sound engineer specializing in old recorded sound restoration I know much better could be done.