This is a movie presentation of the original musical. It seems to be
very true to the original, including the overture, interacte music and
all of the dance music. It starts with Gordon MacRae as Curly McClain
singing "Oh what a Beautiful Morning," and just gets more delicious
from there. Laurey (Shirley Jones joins him with her beautiful voice.
Curly is courting for Laurey but she is not sure if she wants him, as
she has promised to go to the party that night with Jud (Rod Steiger),
their ranch hand. Jud has a chip on his shoulder for anyone who thinks
he is better than him. At the same time there is a love interest
between Will (Gene Nelson) and Ado Annie (Gloria Grahame). I really
like the song "Pore Jud is Daid." If Jud is just playing along, or
really thinking about what people will say when he is dead, I don't
know. However this song is a premonition of what is to some. Laurey
and Curly finally hit it off, and get married in the final scene. This
creates bad blood between Curley and Jud, which boils over on the
wedding night.
My only complaint about this movie is too much dancing. Some of the
dancing is cute, but the scene where Laurey is confused, the dance goes
for ever. The entire movie is two and a half hours. They could have
shortened it at least 15 minutes. I do love the music, "Oklahoma" is
always a favorite, as is "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top."
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