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

| Feb 28, 2023

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

| Feb 28, 2023

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

| 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.

| Feb 28, 2023

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

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2023

The film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical -- nothing lost, nothing new, and still too sweet.

| Feb 27, 2023

Flower Drum Song wasn't very good as a Broadway musical. It's worse as a movie.

| Feb 27, 2023

A long way from being the best of Rodgers and Hammerstein efforts.

| Feb 27, 2023

The movie sports two nice Rodgers and Hammerstein songs ("I Enjoy Being a Girl" and "Don't Marry Me") and a graceful dream ballet.

| Feb 27, 2023

One of the lesser, latter-day Rodgers- Hammerstein musicals, lightweight but only mildly entertaining due to a static filming technique.

| Feb 27, 2023

Flower Drum Song is going to please almost every type of audience.

| Feb 27, 2023

Everything is almost too professional and is going on for too long. Miss Kwan, however, remains an unfailing delight.

| Feb 27, 2023

This film is not especially distinguished but would make a pleasant evening.

| Feb 27, 2023

Finds the usually reliable Rodgers and Hammerstein uninspired.

| Feb 27, 2023

It is a conventional musical comedy, with the emphasis on comedy, and a score full of attractive melodies without distinction.

| Feb 25, 2023

Beats out solid, tuneful film.

| Feb 25, 2023

Songs can sometimes redeem a musical, but here the songs themselves are are beyond redemption.

| Feb 25, 2023

Since colorfulness and pleasant music were the strong points in Flower Drum Song... when it bloomed on the Broadway stage, it is notable that the film version stresses those qualities and does well enough by others.

| Mar 7, 2020

The stage show was the usual product of the R. & H. collaboration... In the movie nothing of value has been eliminated, but nothing of interest has been added.

| Mar 7, 2020

Flower Drum Song has been overwhelmed by the sheer opulence and glamour with which Ross Hunter has translated it to the screen. As a film, it emerges a curiously unaffecting, unstable and rather undistinguished experience.

| Jun 26, 2008