If it happens to be a youthful memory, you may find the magic a trifle dimmed.

No one can deny that this music is about as melodious as anything Jerome Kern ever wrote. But you have to love it a great deal not to be tired of it by now.

This lush colour film flows as slowly as the Mississippi, but the familiar, simple story, and the well-loved lilting melodies of Jerome Kern are nicely interpreted.

A feast for eye and ear.