Carousel

Carousel (1956) is a Hollywood musical you can watch online on iFILM — director Henry King's adaptation of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show. Gordon MacRae stars as Billy Bigelow, a carousel barker on the Maine coast with a short temper and a gift for making people feel both chosen and abandoned. Shirley Jones plays Julie Jordan, who loves him despite knowing better.

Billy dies in a robbery before his daughter is born. Fifteen years later, a gatekeeper at the edge of the afterlife gives him a single day back on Earth — not for his own sake, but for the child he never met and the wife he never got right.

Shot in CinemaScope and Technicolor, the film carries the full Rodgers and Hammerstein score, including "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" — the latter traveled far beyond this production to become a fixture at English football grounds for decades. It is a romantic musical that takes its characters seriously enough to let them be genuinely difficult. Stream Carousel (1956) online on iFILM.