• Warning: Spoilers
    I was hoping for more music, but I very much enjoyed On Moonlight Bay. Doris Day and Gordon Macrae are great together. The young Billy Grey, who plays the younger brother, has wonderful comedic ability. And all the minor parts are performed with love and care - Aunt Martha for instance. I particularly loved the parlour scenes with young ladies and gentlemen being forced to dance with each other, as well as an authentic glimpse as to how young people entertained themselves in those days,-- with the piano, with the gramophone, in a canoe, at a community dance. Every scene was conceived with great care. When the entire graduating class goes off to fight in WW1, the scene is done with a cheerful patriotism, but one can't help feeling the presence of a dark future looming over this Rockwellian town.