Product Details

• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Warner)
• VHS Release Date: February 24, 1995
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303050093
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #146,546 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nelson Eddy Will Surprise You In This Film!, July 20, 2002

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T. lopopolo "fanoffilmnoir" (Coopersburg, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let Freedom Ring [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's great to see Nelson Eddy, cast in his first "solo" role, looking so comfortable and sure: no singing co-star, no tight uniforms, no white wigs, not even a Mountie hat! The handsome, booming baritone sings plenty of songs, all woven beautifully into the story. Eddy returns home from an Eastern college to save his frontier town from the clutches of greedy railroad barons. He masquerades as a toady to Edward Arnold's villainous landgrabber but sets up a hidden printing press to incite the underdogs to rebel against their oppressors. The big burly Irish actor, Victor McLaglen, is hilarious as a ham-fisted foreman of a crew of immigrant laborers who cries real tears when Eddy, at McLaglen's prodding, sings old Irish songs. Lionel Barrymore is Eddy's leathery rancher father, and pretty Virginia Bruce is perfect as the love interest and doesn't even have to sing. Combining handsome, virile Nelson Eddy's gorgeous, strong voice with its message of religious and ethnic tolerance, this film is all you want in a good Western film. And it's so great to see Nelson let go, loosen up, and even duke it out in a great fight sequence. Directed by Jack Conway and scripted by Ben Hecht, Let Freedom Ring is a powerful, entertaining film.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nelson Eddy at His Best, February 15, 2009

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B. Wilson (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let Freedom Ring [VHS] (VHS Tape)

First, a word of caution. If you are looking for the Nelson Eddy movie, Let Freedom Ring, make sure that is what you are ordering. There is an unrelated documentary with the exact same title available on DVD, but as of this writing, the Eddy movie is NOT available on DVD. When ordering the movie, look for a VHS tape case with Nelson Eddy and Virginia Bruce on the cover.

The plot of the movie is one of patriotism and tolerance, a message threaded throughout many movies of the WWII era. The entire cast is excellent, but Nelson Eddy stands out as the clear star of the movie.

Eddy plays the prodigal son returning home from college to find his family and the rest of the town being bullied and terrorized by a crooked railroad boss. In a masquerade reminiscent of Zorro, Nelson's character Steve Logan alienates Maggie Adams (Virginia Bruce) the woman he loves as well as his father Tom Logan (Lionel Barrymore) and the rest of his neighbors by assuming a public stance of support for railroad boss Jim Knox (Edward Arnold) and Chris Mulligan (Victor McLaughlin), Knox's hired muscle. In fact, Steve is secretly fighting the corrupt Knox at every turn by publishing a newspaper which ultimately unites the townspeople and foreign-born workers of the railroad, encouraging them to stand up for their rights and fight Knox's corruption. Charles Butterworth is entertaining as Steve's sidekick and ally, "The Mackeral".

Nelson Eddy is outstanding in his role, ably mastering humor and the physical demands of a hero called on to save the day. His natural goodlooks come through in this movie which was made without the usual caked-on makeup that marked his other movies. He's no pretty boy either and not afraid to get dirty, as proven by his able handling of the fistfight scene between McLaughlin and him. Added to his acting ability, he gets to exercise his wonderful voice in some powerfully delivered songs.

If you can find this movie it is well worth the watch. One can only hope it comes out in DVD format before all the old tapes disappear.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Movie, October 21, 2010

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Jj - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Let Freedom Ring [VHS] (VHS Tape)

What a treasure of a movie with Nelson Eddy this is hard to get. Nelson Eddy is great a hero that can fight and sing. Wonderful voice a joy to see.