Follow Your Heart (1936)

★★★ · out the door · Tamlin · 2005-12-23

It takes a while to get where it's going and when it gets there it isn't anywhere. The way many of these things happen is something is a success and the wiseguys figure "I can do that too", In this case the original was called "ShowBoat." God bless the audience for they know a decent tune when they hear it. A lot of talent though, the girl could hit the notes,Did not care for the "Will she/won't she?" plot. Even were the thing redone as a surrealistic piffle w/ better tunes (eg mine). such an ending destroys the entire mood of the piece. It makes you forget everything else. dumb dumb dumb but…

★★ · Heartbreakingly Bad · malary · 2009-05-09

And I had such high hopes for viewing a spectacular musical I agree with the two reviewers below; this movie is pretty much a mess. However, there were some good points. The scenery is wonderful, and I actually liked most of the actors. The girl with the lead role ('Marian' was her name I think?) has a great voice. The music is, well, OK I guess. There were one or two good songs near the beginning, but it's downhill from there. The script is worse than the music; what were they thinking? The first 15 minutes or so are good, but then it just slowly gets worse and worse. And this ending is one…

★★ · Operatic Insanity Puts On A Show · bobsluckycat · 2005-06-07

When Nat Levine, head of Mascot Pictures merged all his resources (studio, staff etc.) with Herbert J. Yates of Consolidated Film Labs and W.L. Johnson and Trem Carr's Monogram Pictures among others to form Republic Pictures in 1935, he had hoped to be able to produce "quality" "A" pictures far removed from the Westerns, Mysteries, and Adventure "B"'s and Serials he was noted for. Those pictures were making a lot of money for the new studio and Yates allowed some of these big budget pictures to be made, argueably only to force Nat Levine out of the studio altogether and consolidate his…