C.M.P.)The film""s tagline was: "An opera star.A mountie.The Canadian Rockies." The studio""s blurb tauted: "Lovers heartbeats set to enchanting music."In fact, the film was a hybrid of the western and musical comedy genres - moving from its stage-bound roots (with wo operatic performances) to a more expansive outdoors setting.""Stamp"" dragged a bound-up and injured ""Ethan"" (with a broken jaw so he couldn""t talk) into the meeting room, where Ambrose first shot him in the leg and then executed him, to the accompaniment of a choir singingThe Requiem.She retaliated with her own brief affair with a timid Iowa bank officer Sam Burns (John Lithgow).Meanwhile, middle-aged Aurora was dodging the womanizing flirtations of her next-door neighbor, a boozy, beer-bellied, over-the-hill, former astronaut Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson), even though she had turned 50 and was now free to date.Surrender it and I""ll let you live." Jor-El asserted it was inside his newborn son""s pod: "This is a second chance for all of Krypton, not just the bloodlines you deem worthy.It was a tremendous international (world-wide) box-office success, and launched the US career of its star Mel Gibson.