Review of The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) by Private U — 23 Jun 2008

Excellent musical,based on a totally unsinkable lady called Molly Brown. This put a young actress named Debbie Reynolds on the map. She is fantastic as an unstoppable Molly who is tired of being poor and marries Johnny Brown played by Harve Presnell whos redition of the song Colorado brings out the richness of his baratone voice.

Well Molly albeit reluctantly marries Johnny, who strikes it rick in gold mining in Colorado and Molly decides to hide the winnings but something happens to the money and poor Johnny must go out and mine once again because he can't bear to see his 'chickapee' wailing like that.

Soon the couple are nouveau rich but shunned in the eyes of Denver society rich snobs. Johnny angerly wants to return to their roots but Molly is determined to be 'respectable' and feels that traveling abroad will make them more cultured and civilized.

Johnny reluctantly agrees because he promised to say, 'I'll never say NO! Molly with her demands makes that harder and harder to commit to. All the fun and laughter that he saw in Molly is being destroyed by her persistance in being respectable.

Molly meets people of class, elegance, culture and grace in France, she learns to speak fluently in other languages but loses Johnny in the process swearing 'I Ain't Down Yet!' Departing on the Titanic for Denver she again shows her true unsinkable spirit when the Titanic sinks leaving people tired and afraid in lifeboats, Molly cheers them up, handing clothing from her back to warm them even Gladys is shocked by her generosity.

Gladys in the leader of the Denver rich and had stymied every outreach from Molly before. I recommend this movie highly. Well worth watching.