On Moonlight Bay
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Movie Reviews of On Moonlight Bay
Movie Review: Can there be any better than Doris Day
Summary: 5 Stars
If your a Doris Day fan you will love this movie. It is entertaining, great songs and just fun to watch.Movie Review: Light-hearted musical for the family
Summary: 4 Stars
I decided to buy this movie because I like to have movies available that both children and adults can enjoy. Old standards like "The Music Man", "The Nutty Professor"( original version) and this movie keep the children entertained in family gatherings and the young adults who have never seen these movies like watching them also. This movie was based on the "Penrod" books about a young boy, played by Billy Gray, of "Father Knows Best" fame and his antics are the highlights. A young Doris Day and Gordon MacCrea provide the wholesome romance and, of course, their great singing voices to the familiar musical numbers.
The movie is set in pre-World War 1 America yet the characters are not prim and proper types at all and the movie itself does not come across as old-fashioned. This is a light hearted movie that can be watched over again.
Movie Review: Fast Shipment. Love it!
Summary: 4 Stars
Love the movie. The box was broken when I received it, not sure if that was how it was shipped or happened in the mailing processMovie Review: A Wanna-be "Meet Me in St. Louis"
Summary: 3 Stars
Girl meets Neighbor Boy. Girl and Neighbor Boy fall in love. Neighbor Boy offends Father, Father throws Neighbor Boy off the porch. Girl cries, Father forgives Neighbor Boy. Girl and Neighbor Boy are happy. Neighbor Boy offends Father. Father throws Neighbor Boy out of house. Girl cries. Little Brother burns house down. Father stares at burnt down house, thinks about how he was once young, and forgives Neighbor Boy. Girl and Neighbor Boy are happy. The End.
There is the story of "On Moonlight Bay".
Okay, okay, so there's more to it than that. But almost hardly anything more exciting or redeeming. First off, just to exemplify the dokiness of this movie, say (out loud) "On Moonlight Bay with Doris Day and Gordon McRae." Seriously. Did they cast this film just so it all rhymed?
George Winfield `Father' (Leon Ames) has committed the worst possible sin towards his family. He has moved them two blocks away from their home to a bigger house. Even though the new home is closer to his bank, he insists that he moved them with his daughter, Marjorie `Marjie' (Doris Day) in mind--he wants to find her respectable suitors and turn her from a wild tomboy into a proper young lady. Ironically, the miracle occurs the very day that they move into their new home: Marjie stops her little brother, Wesley (Billy Gray), from shooting a gun in the neighbors' barn, but in the process, she herself shoots through the barn door, and the door promptly crashes down upon the handsome neighbor boy, William Sherman `Bill' (Gordon McRae). It only takes one lock of the eyes for him to forgive her as well as fall in love with her.
The rest of the story is a mess-pot of love letters, lies, tears, and...dishes crashing to the floor (to the dismay of opinionated, caring maid, Stella (Mary Wickes). Marjie and Bill begin a somewhat odd courtship, and not one that Marjie's father altogether approves of. In fact, Father begins to regret ever moving to the new house because of his daughter's affiliation with boys. Then again, if she'd only show more interest in the boys he picks out--the boring, dull, arrogant ones, that is. Despite her love for Bill and her history with tomboy-ish-nes, Marjie proves to be a rather weak lover. It seems like when she needs to stand up to her father's bullying, she merely allows herself to be tugged along, tears streaming down her cheeks.
Little brother, Wesley, is an entirely different matter. This boy is the devil in human child form. Sure, he's got a cute face and can sometimes make you smile, but in real life, this kid is what we call S-P-O-I-L-E-D. The biggest content issue also has to do with him. Make sure that any kid who watches this film knows that they could not get away with telling lies and breaking windows like Wesley did--that boy deserved a sound, square spanking. Instead, he actually got away with each bad thing he did without a word of reproof.
As far as other content issue, there is almost nothing. On their first night out, Alice Winfield `Mother' (Rosemary DeCamp) encourages Marjie to put two powder puffs in her bosom. While dancing, they fall out and are handed to Marjie by complete strangers (both men, I think). Bill tells Marjie that he doesn't believe in marriage, and she is convinced that he is right--they both agree that two people who are really in love should not be bound by conventional thinking (and yes, they end up getting married in the end).
This certainly isn't Gordon McRae's best, and probably the worst role I've seen Doris Day play. There are actually very few songs, and I can't even remember anything about the few that were in the film. I'm not sure if the plot revolves around Wesley and his horrible deeds or the rocky courtship between Marjie and Bill. I guess the best thing I can say about this film is that it's not too deep (and it is lighthearted). But overall, I would summarize it in this word: "strange". It's almost like an attempt to create a "Meet Me in St. Louis" spoof. If you merely have the goal to watch every old musical in the universe, add this one to the bottom half of your list. Or you could waste a few hours of your life and create your own opinion about "On Moonlight Bay" (with Doris Day and Gordon McRae).
Movie Review: Bright and fun, Doris
Summary: 3 Stars
I gave it three stars because while I did enjoy it and I like the time period, I could have done with a bit less of the little brother, Billy Grey, even though he played it well. I liked the extras and I will buy the sequel By the Light of the Silvery Moon. I must admit, being from Indiana, that was a draw to the film since it's set in the Hoosier state.