ID

FBW001313      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1942

Original Title

Ship Ahoi

Directed by

Edward Buzzel

Produced by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) (Loew's, Inc.), Culver City, CA (New York, NY)

Staff

Producer: Jack Cummings; Script: Harry Clork, Harry Kurnitz, Irving S. Brecher (based on a story by Matt Brooks, Bradford Ropes, Bert Kalmar); Based on: Matt Brooks, Bradford Ropes, Bert Kalmar; Camera: Leonard Smith, Robert H. Planck; Editing: Blanche Sewell; Art direction: Cedric Gibbons (Künstlerische Gestaltung), Harry McAfee (Künstlerische Gestaltung); Set decoration: Edwin B. Willis; Costumes: Robert Kalloch; Music: Axel Stordahl, Sy Oliver, Leo Arnaud, George Bassman, Basil Adlam, George Stoll, Henry Russell; Choreography: Bobby Connolly

Cast

Eleanor Powell (Tallulah Winters); Red Skelton (Merton K. Kibble); Bert Lahr (Skip Owens); Virginia O'Brien (Fran Evans); William Post, Jr. (H.U. Bennett); Jimmy Cross (Stump); Eddie Hartman (Stumpy); Stuart Crawford (Art Higgins); John Emery (Dr. Farno); Bernard Nedell (Pietro Polesi); Moroni Olson (Inspector Davis); Ralph Dunn (Grimes); Willliam Tannen (Flammer); Mary Treen (Nurse); Russell Hicks (Capt. C.V. O'Brien); Philip Ahn (Koro Sumo); Nestor Paiva (Felix); Bobby Larson (Waldo); Mariska Aldrich (Waldo's Mother); John H. Dilson (Dr. Loring); Barbara Bedford (Mrs. Loring); Carol Hughes; Gladys Blake; Mary Currier (Secretary); Addison Richards (Agent in Puerto Rico); Grandon Rhodes (Lt. Cmdr. Thurston); Grant Withers; Otto Reichow (Waiter); Hillary Brooke; Natalie Thompson (Girl); Tommy Dorsey; Frank Sinatra; Connie Haines

Length

2603 m / 96'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

Musical of a band going to Porto Rico where they become involved with spies and plans of secret weapons.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); Music; Foreign agents; Espionage

Bibliography

- , in: Motion Picture Herald (New York, NY), Vol. 147, Nr. 3, 18.04.1942
- , in: Today's Cinema, Vol. 58, Nr. 4735, 12.06.1942
- , in: Kinematograph Weekly (London), Nr. 1835, 18.06.1942
- , in: Films in Review (New York, NY), Vol. 28, Nr. 5, Mai, 01.05.1977
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987