1h 48min | Comedy, Horror, Musical | 27 April 1953
Director: George Marshall
Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda.
Billy Daniel ... choreographer
Watched online, good print.
The musical numbers are clustered together, with 3 in the initial scene in the restaurant, 4 aboard ship (3 with CM or JL imitating her), and nothing after they land in Cuba and get to the island (with the supposedly haunted castle).
This is CM's last screen credit. She has 2 more TV appearances (15 episodes total), the last being the one after which she had her fatal heart attack ('55).
Songs performed:
- "I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine" by DM with chorus girls
- "You Hit the Spot" by DM, interrupted by JL
- "What Have You Done for Me Lately" by DM & JL
- "San Domingo" by CM, DM, JL
- "When Someone Wonderful Thinks You're Wonderful" by DM
- "Mamãe eu quero (Mama yo quiero)" by JL
- "Song of the Enchilada Man" by DM, CM, JL and chorus
This is totally shrug-worthy. The plot is very Abbott&Costello-ish, with multiple independent stories woven lightly together: the gangster plot from act 1 intersects the inheritance plot in acts 2&3 because hotel rooms are nearby.
Wallis-Hazen, distr. Paramount, dir. Marshall; 6-
