Louie Robinson Jet Magazine Jan 16, 2024

The songs, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, are the show's best insurance, but a brilliant cast... handles this delicate bon bon of a story with all the sensitivity, wit and understatement that it deserves.

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Birch Storm Honolulu Advertiser Mar 17, 2023

It's wide-screen and dripping with color from the very beginning when Dong Kingman's brilliant-hued paintings illustrate the titles to the very final scene when everyone ends up happily, lifting their voices in song.

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Phil Mayer Honolulu Star-Bulletin Mar 17, 2023

Miyoshi Umeki and her great song, "A Hundred Million Miracles," are the best reasons to see Flower Drum Song.

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Janet Graves Photoplay Feb 28, 2023

Gorgeous big production of a light romantic fable.

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Marjory Adams Boston Globe Feb 28, 2023

This is genuine holiday joy-making, and the Rodgers tunes give zip and romance to the film.

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John L. Scott Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 2023

The plot is flimsy, but it serves as an adequate framework for the bright dances and some clever songs.

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Ken Winters Winnipeg Free Press Feb 28, 2023

It is luxurious, sentimental, elaborate, slick and fashionably trivial.

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Myles Standish St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb 28, 2023

Breezy, appealing, splashy with color, wistful on occasion, and embellished by the tuneful score.

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P.S. Harrison Harrison's Reports Feb 28, 2023

Scenery of rich hues. Costumes of flashy color. An investiture of eye-compelling brilliance to make the tones of the rainbow look tarnished. You get it all in this rather wistful melody play.

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Mae Tinée Chicago Tribune Feb 28, 2023

If you're looking for something light and bright and colorful, this film version of the Rodgers and Hammer-stein musical should fill the bill.

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Moira Walsh America Magazine Feb 28, 2023

This picture is pleasant enough entertainment.

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Wanda Hale New York Daily News Feb 28, 2023 3.5/5

With movie musicals a rarity today, Ross Hunter contributed one of beauty and charm that fulfills the need...

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John Beaufort Christian Science Monitor Feb 28, 2023

A passably pleasant film.

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Jeanette Eichel Buffalo News Feb 28, 2023

Flower Drum Song is well endowed with music, [and] beauty.

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Sandra Saunders Philadelphia Daily News Feb 28, 2023

Toe-tapping, super-scale screen musical.

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Jay Carmody Washington Star Feb 27, 2023

It is sweet, sentimental, sad and seemingly endless.

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John Bustin Austin American-Statesman Feb 27, 2023

It may not be memorable entertainment for everybody, but it should be pretty happy stuff for most.

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William C. Glackin Sacramento Bee Feb 27, 2023

A movie which is better than it's stage original.

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Stanley Eichelbaum San Francisco Examiner Feb 27, 2023

Unadulterated musical entertainment.

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Robert G. Breen Baltimore Sun Feb 27, 2023

If you like the score, plenty of glittering color, and a story in which true love triumphs over all obstacles, this is your cup of tea.

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