The Girl of the Golden West (1938)

Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen ... see more  , Leonard Penn , Priscilla Lawson , Bob Murphy , Olin Howland , Cliff Edwards , Billy Bevan , Brandon Tynan , H.B. Warner , Monty Woolley , Noah Beery Sr. , Hank Bell , Chief John Big Tree , Bill Cody Jr. , Joe Dominguez , Jeanne Ellis , Charles Grapewin , Virginia Howell , Cy Kendall , Frank McGlynn Sr. , Alberto Morin , Victor Potel , Pedro Regas , Ynez Seabury , Russell Simpson , Richard Tucker , E. Alyn Warren , Armand "Curly" Wright , Francis Ford , Tom Mahoney , Walter Bonn , Gene Coogan , Eva-Maria Westbroek , Lucio Gallo , Zoran Todorovich , Roman Sadnik , Diogenes Randes

MGM's leading musical team of the 30's, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are paired once again in this fourth film version of David Belasco's creaky melodrama, featuring music by Sigmund Romberg and... read more  Gus Kahn. Jeanette MacDonald is Mary Robbins, the owner of a bawdy, rough-house saloon in a western mining town, who falls in love with the Mexican bandit Ramerez (Nelson Eddy), who has disguised himself as a cavalry officer. But when local sheriff Jack Rance (Walter Pidgeon) tracks down Ramerez and wounds him, Mary discovers Ramerez's ruse and begs Rance for the outlaw's freedom. The only problem is that Nance is also in love with Mary. Girl of the Golden West was originally tinted in a sepia-tone to create a look as burnished as the MGM production design. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi