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Joan Crawford sings in Montana Moon, a fact that has offered detractors plenty of ammunition through the years. But although she obviously isn't a trained chanteuse, Crawford's warbling is not nearly as bad as all that. The early sound system doesn't help, needless to say, but Joan, as always, gives everything she's got and then some. The real problem with Montana Moon today is the so-called "comedy relief," tedious bits of nonsensical humor from the likes of Cliff Edwards and Benny Rubin, whose popularity in the early days of sound remains rather baffling to a modern audience. Rubin, especially, is hard to take, his kind of borscht-belt humor having gone the way of vaudeville. All in all, Montana Moon is an interesting museum piece notably mainly for the loving way William Daniels photographs the very young Joan Crawford.