Second viewing; first was on June 5, 1990.
A farmer decides to take his motherless son to live with him in his farm. He meets a saloon singer who is expecting the arrival of her lover, a gambler. The latter just won a mine's claim on a game, and must get to the nearest town to file it. These characters will meet and extreme actions will take place.
A musical western with a plot that works like a theorem, and there's the beauty of it, or one of the beauties, rather, because there are many in it. The rapids scenes, even though made with the limited technical resources then available, are beautiful and lend an epical quality to the film; the songs, in turn, lend it a lyrical one, and this unusual mix, which in theory shouldn't work, actually does, and very well.
Rating: 73 (down from 87)
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