- Also Known As/Subtitle:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1956
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Music
- Director:
- Outstanding Performance:
- Premiss:
- Billy Bigelow has been dead for fifteen years, and now outside the pearly gates, he long waived his right to go back to Earth for a day.
- Themes:
- Compassion
- Courage
- Destiny
- Empathy
- Friendship
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loyalty
- Mankind
- Personal change
- Self-belief
- Self-expression
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Oklahoma!
- Review Format:
- DVD
Visually-interesting but thematically-dull musical with some extremely-imaginative choreography but generally-banal music and lyrics - as well as a trite story and plot.
Its single good musical theme (a waltz) is effectively worked-over throughout the movie’s length, but fails to bring the wishful-thinking nature of its story of self-belief truly alive.
The excellent Shirley JONES is wasted, while the realistic location-shooting tries to hide the artificiality of the story - mostly failing.
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