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I always loved this film. The music,story and the action. I especially love the opening and closing of the film. The music stayed with me throughout the years. The WWI plane battles were great and the comedy is typical Blake Edwards. Slaptick is his forte' after all. Julie's singing is amazing and keeps me glued to the screen. The sets and the scenes are wonderful. The characters are appealing. I loved the scene with the wounded soldiers and Julie's singing to them. I wish she sang to me in Vietnam. I also enjoyed the old cars from the period and the WWI music.I was glad when the DVD arrived. Now I can whistle in the dark watching it again and again.

Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson were great in this movie / musical. The opening song by Ms. Andrews, "Whistling Away the Dark," will always be in the back roads of my mind. The plot line during World War I, is great and suspenseful one. If you are a romantic, you will love this movie. This is a movie that I always enjoy to see again and again.

This movie is well known for being a flop of disastrous proportions, and so I wasn't expecting much when I watched it... boy was I pleasantly surprised! I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It's a cute romantic comedy that takes place during WW1. I laughed, a lot... one of the characters is a wonderful comic relief! There were several parts where I was sitting at the edge of my seat anxious to see what was going to happen next. I continue to be stunned by the amazing voice and acting skills of lovely Julie Andrews! I will definitely be watching this movie again!

Lots of people have pronounced this film a failure. I, on the other hand, am so crazy about Julie Andrews that I have never seen a film with her in it that I didn't like. Her then new husband Blake Edwards directed this box office flop, a very expensive spoof that casts Andrews as a World War I singer in London and Paris who is actually a spy for the Germans. Through the course of the film Andrews sings patriotic songs such as "Pack Up Your Troubles" and "It's a Long Was to Tipperary." It's clear as the film unfolds that Edwards's tongue was firmly embedded in his cheek as he directed, but the viewing audience was changing and the film came along at just the wrong time. This is a visually gorgeous movie and the songs by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer include the superb opener "Whistling in the Dark." Maybe the whole problem is our inability to accept Julie Andrews as a German spy, but when you think about it, what better cover could there be? ---from Musicals on the Silver Screen, American Library Association, 2013