The classic Kern-Hammerstein musical, with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson as the ill-suited pair trying to get a love thing going aboard an old Mississippi riverboat. Ava Gardner provides a glamourous distraction from the sometimes sketchy plot and songs include such tear-jerkers as "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man". Unashamedly slushy.