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Title: Excellent moral buried under a ton of discolored ham
Review: The long-running classic Broadway musical about romance in the Pacific theater of WWII took awhile to make it to film, and it just does not hold up over time. The dubbed-in operatic baritone by an Italian actor playing a Frenchman with an Italian accent both when he speaks and when he sings (?) sounds ludicrous to the 21st-century ear, the dialogue is frequently laughable, and the bizarre directorial decision to film some scenes through color filters that just look nasty, combine to make this an exceptionally overrated piece of nostalgic cheese. Plenty of ham to go with it, too. Bleah. The only reason there's more than one star in my rating is that the film does very well in making its point against racism, a socially redeeming factor that was very much germaine in the late '50s. But that's no reason anyone should be subjected to this snoozer at this late date.
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