Moon Over Burma (1940) DVD-R

Starring Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Doris Nolan,
Albert Bassermann
Directed by Louis King

Print: black/white
Runtime: 76 min.
Genre: adventure
Print Quality: B

Dorothy Lamour once again wraps a variety of alluring costumes around
her hourglass frame in the Paramount bread-and-butter feature Moon
Over Burma. Lamour is cast as Aria Dean, an American showgirl stranded
in Rangoon. It doesn't take long before Aria becomes the romantic bone
of contention between teak-lumber camp owners Chuck Lane (Robert
Preston) and Bill Gordon (Preston Foster). The animosity between the two
men is put on the back burner when the film's villains attempt to block
shipment of Lane and Gordon's logs, a dilemma exacerbated by a deadly
forest fire. Albert Basserman's performance as the blind logging-camp
supervisor is an interesting precursor to his similar performance in the
superior Paramount "B" Fly By Night.