Easily one of the dullest, most boring movies I've ever sort of seen.
"Sort of," because after about 15 minutes I payed this film only the most cursory attention. Jane Powell is in Paris, meets Fernando Lamas, and sings one syrupy ballad after another that all sound the same. Her long-lost mom, who she thinks is dead, shows up and wants to be reunited with her daughter. Her father is played by Wendell Corey, who was far too creepy in "Rear Window" to be acceptable as anyone's father.
The film is so inconsequential and uninvolving it's amazing to think that enough people gathered enough collective energy to actually make it.
The soundtrack boasts the Academy Award-nominated song "Wonder Why," which sounds exactly like every other song in the film.
Grade: F
"Sort of," because after about 15 minutes I payed this film only the most cursory attention. Jane Powell is in Paris, meets Fernando Lamas, and sings one syrupy ballad after another that all sound the same. Her long-lost mom, who she thinks is dead, shows up and wants to be reunited with her daughter. Her father is played by Wendell Corey, who was far too creepy in "Rear Window" to be acceptable as anyone's father.
The film is so inconsequential and uninvolving it's amazing to think that enough people gathered enough collective energy to actually make it.
The soundtrack boasts the Academy Award-nominated song "Wonder Why," which sounds exactly like every other song in the film.
Grade: F