Flower Drum Song

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Rosa K @Rosa321 Mar 5 I love this movie! I love everything about it. I love the story, especially when the couples get with the wrong person and try to figure out how to fix it. The young man who is the lead dancer of the three children is also the young prince who is the son of Yul Brynner in The King and I. He is a terrific dancer! I love all the songs. I don't mind that Nancy Kwan is not singing. She is beautiful and a wonderful dancer. And the singing voice they chose for her, matches her speaking voice perfectly. I can't count how many times I have seen this film. And I plan to keep watching it. This is another triumph from the spectacular team of Rodgers and Hammerstein! The director, Henry Koster, also directed the marvelous movie Harvey, starring James Stewart. See more David S @RT68837966 02/21/2025 Very entertaining and well made production See more Autumn M @RT26919073 01/15/2023 Flower Drum Song is one of the lesser known Rodger and Hammerstein musicals. The story is one of immigrants who sneak into San Francisco, and request that a nightclub owner honor a marriage contract he had made at the behest of his family. I thought that the music was very blasé. I did like the story, and the many different love triangles kept the story moving along nicely. The overt sexist and anti-feminist messages did grate a little bit on my modern sensibilities, and the one-note characters were a little boring, but overall a passable musical. See more Cait G @RT63484643 04/19/2021 I love musicals. I love Rodgers & Hammerstein. But I didn't love Flower Drum Song. I recently watched it thanks to TCM's 31 Days of Oscar and was excited because it was the one R&H film I hadn't seen since it's a bit more elusive than my favourites, South Pacific and The King and I. Now I can see why. There are a few songs I liked "I Enjoy Being a Girl" and "Don't Marry Me", but overall the cringe overwhelms the charms of this outdated extravaganza. If you stripped back the racist stereotyping, I think there could be a decent stroy of immigrant parents wanting to keep their American children to the motherland ways. On top of that, even the songs I liked are pure sexism - women wanting nothing more than to be dutiful wives to awful, philandering husbands. Nancy Kwan is glorious - although I tire of extended dance numbers that are not relevant to the story at all. If you enjoy classic musicals, it's worth watching once, but you'll be able to "wash it out of your head" rather quickly afterward. See more 08/19/2020 Considering the period during which it was written and made, this film developed from a musicale is interesting and educational. Also shares immigrants' experiences. May even make some people feel less entitled and more understanding. See more steve d @RT35616104 07/19/2020 Poor adaptation of a below average show. See more Read all reviews

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