Swing It, Sailor! (1938)
1938 · Feature film · 62 min · dir. Raymond Cannon
They went to sea..but all they could see was blondes!
- Comedy
- Adventure
Synopsis
Husky Stone (Ray Mayer), strongest man in the Navy, and as short on brains as he is as long on muscle, has an urge to get married, as his enlistment is up. The object of his affection is Myrtle Montrose (Isabal Jewell), a typical "Sweetheart of the Navy." Seeking to discourage Husky's plans is his pal, Pete Kelly (Wallace Ford), who uses Husky to fight his battles and do his work. Pete frames Husky and he is confined to the brig, as their ship docks in San Francisco. Pete goes ashore, courts the fickle and ever-ready Myrtle and makes her forget Husky. The latter, when he finds out, knocks Pete out cold and refuses to have anything to do with him. Pete and Husky are sent on a working party during aerial bombing practice. They board a floating target to repair it and, unknown to the others, Husky is knocked out by a loose timber. Heading back to the ship, Pete discovers that Husky is missing, jumps overboard from the launch and swims back to the target to rescue Husky.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Raymond Cannon
- Writer
- Clarence Marks
- Studio
- Grand National Pictures, B. F. Ziedman Film
- Released
- 1938-02-04
- Running time
- 62 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Comedy Films, Feature Films
Cast & crew
Raymond Cannon Director
Wallace Ford- Ray Mayer
Isabel Jewell
Mary Treen
Tom Kennedy
Cully Richards
Max Hoffman Jr.
George Humbert
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Interesting Pre-war Comedy · Big Boomer · 2017-03-04
Although the plot is thin, continuity is flawed in many scenes, and the ending is hard to suspend disbelief in, this film has many redeeming qualities. The B-roll of the peacetime navy was interesting to see. Isabel Jewell is always nice to watch even in a badly directed performance like this. So sad that she was typecast as a lower class floosie so often. She did give memorable performances in Gone With The Wind and Tale of Two Cities but could not make the leap to leading lady. Her later career was a struggle and she finally died alone and broke at age 63 (of "natural causes").
