cricket30 Review of Across to Singapore

Across to Singapore (1928)

When Priscilla fires some sort of musket pistol at . . .

[6/10 · 18 November 2020]

. . . a mutineer high up in the rigging of the Nathan Ross, the idea that she actually hits her target is as preposterous as if she's just supposed to have back-stroked the broad Pacific from Cape Horn ACROSS TO SINGAPORE. At the height of the mutiny, there seem to be about five dozen malicious miscreants Hell-bent upon slaughtering Priscilla and the pair of Shore brothers at her elbows. This is exactly the sort of predicament for which Bushmasters were invented. It would not be at all implausible for this endangered nautical trio to mow down 60 or 80 bad eggs among their balky crew if they each had this sort of assault rifle, along with a sea chest full of banana clips. After watching this flick, viewers should be in the mood to support their local chapter of BANGS (Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps).