mike48128 Review of Hit the Ice

Hit the Ice (1943)

Pretty good chases and routines but Oh! those terrible songs!

[8/10 · 30 April 2016]

Ginny Sims sings four times! Even one at the finish! That being said, the rest of the film is pretty good, Lou is very funny as the worst ice skating waiter ever. Some pretty-fancy ice dancing and a great location. Here a song seems to fit in. The ski-chase climax would have us believe that bumbling "Tubby" is a whiz on skis. Sheldon Leonard plays his usual gangster self and threatens to "take care of everybody". Most of that action is predictable, and the only thing that spices it up is that he thinks that Bud and Lou are "the shooters from Detroit" and they get mistakenly blamed for the bank robbery. There is a doctor, nurse, singer, and a band leader along for the romance (yawn.) Back to the chase: It involves everything from sled dogs to a (man in a) polar bear suit! Somehow "Tubby" gets the idea he was proposed to and shows up at the train station with flowers and formal wear. As the before-mentioned "4 lovers" pull away at the station, he loses his pants, once again, on the mailbag hook! If not for the chases, I would have only gave it a "7". Terrible songs!