Ship Ahoy
1942 · Movie · NR · 95 min · ★ 6.3
Ship Ahoy, a patriotic musical comedy of the WWII era, swings to the tempo of its big-band times. Eleanor Powell plays a leggy lead dancer on a cruise ship who is asked to transport a mine to Puerto Rico. Neither she nor her pulp-fiction-author beau (Red Skelton) knows she's actually working for spies –who got the idea from one of his potboiler novels! The supporting cast includes Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz) and Virginia O'Brien (Till the Clouds Roll By). All of the festivities are set to the swing of Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra featuring a very young Frank Sinatra as vocalist.
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Details
- Years
- 1942
- Release date
- 1942-04-16
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 95 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (10 votes)
Themes
- musical
Cast & crew
Eleanor Powell
as Tallulah Winters
Red Skelton
as Merton K. Kibble
Bert Lahr
as Skip Owens
Virginia O'Brien
as Fran Evans
William Post Jr.
as H. U. Bennet
Stuart Crawford
as Art Higgins
John Emery
as Dr. Farno
Bernard Nedell
as Pietro Polesi
Tommy Dorsey
as Tommy Dorsey
- BR
Buddy Rich
as Drummer
Directed by Edward Buzzell