Song of the West
Song of the West 1930 is a musical operetta film produced by Warner Bros., and photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the 1928 Broadway musical Rainbow by Vincent Youmans music, Oscar Hammerstein II lyrics and Laurence Stallings book. It starred John Boles, Joe E. Brown and Vivienne Segal, and was the first allcolor alltalking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors.
The colonel has Stanton put in the guard house on a murder charge. He escapes disguised as a parson and continues along with the wagon train in order to be near Virginia, the daughter of his former commander, played by Vivienne Segal. They fall in love and when Stanton decides to leave the wagon train, Virginia follows him.Stanton marries Virginia and opens a gambling hall. When the regiment eventually turns up at the gambling hall, Virginia makes merry with her former friends. Stanton, in a fit of jealousy, leaves the establishment with another woman and tries his luck in California, searching for gold. He has poor luck and becomes a derelict. Eventually he meets his wife in San Francisco, resulting in a happy reconciliation. Some soldiers find him and give him a choice between being deported or reenlisting in the army. He reenlists. Joe E. Brown, in the part of Hasty, his doomed sidekick, provided the comedy for the film. ........
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