1h 20min | Comedy, Musical | 3 March 1953
Director: Richard Quine
Stars: Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald.
Erze Ivan ... assistant choreographer
Lee Scott ... choreographer
Watched online, good print.
In the Tap! Appendix for Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald. They certainly danced together, probably tapped a bit.
The final scene was a beach party, and it's too soon, but they had an electric guitar, and I heard early rock, and half expected Frankie & Annette to show up.
Most of the time is the boys scrounging for dough, chasin' girls, dating, scrounging for a place to sleep, doing day jobs for food... not exactly affluent stuff. I've forgotten how they lost MR's savings near the beginning of the leave. The other 2 were tagging along to sponge off him.
This is a west coast adventure, starting in San Diego and ending on Catalina (they're not very close together, but the story seems like they take a tourist boat from one to the other).
The final scene was a beach party, and it's too soon, but they had an electric guitar, and I heard early rock, and half expected Frankie & Annette to show up.
Most of the time is the boys scrounging for dough, chasin' girls, dating, scrounging for a place to sleep, doing day jobs for food... not exactly affluent stuff. I've forgotten how they lost MR's savings near the beginning of the leave. The other 2 were tagging along to sponge off him.
This is a west coast adventure, starting in San Diego and ending on Catalina (they're not very close together, but the story seems like they take a tourist boat from one to the other).
PR & RM are wonderful dancers, and we get some good stuff from them. But not enough quantity to bump this to a +.
Columbia, dir. Quine; 6
