All Ashore! Love Peggy Ryan & Ray McDonald! What a fantastic dance team! The Best! I could cut out their scenes and watch them dance over and over again! I bought a 16mm print of this picture a few years ago, because they were in it! The other thing I loved about this picture is when Dick Haymes sings to Jody Lawrance "Who Are We To Say" what a beautiful ballad! I grew up in the 1960's and 70's listening to big band 78rpm records so I am a little bias because while my contemporaries all listened to the rock 'n roll trash like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, I only loved classical and jazz! To this day I think popular recorded music after 1960 all sucks! Back to the flick! OKAY Mickey Rooney is a very annoying human! He was talented for sure, but he was a right wing wack job who thought Bill Clinton was a Marxist? Give me a break Mick he signed NAFTA and GATT along with Rooney's Republican buddies which helped to destroy the American work force! Barbara Bates was a doll! Too bad she had to go and knock herself off! Jody Lawrance was another cute chick who also died too young! And who don't love Jean Willes, loved her in the Three Stooges shorts! The dream sequence "I Lay Down My Arms" was stupid, but boy oh boy didn't Barbara Bates look hot! Some of the music was dumb! But I have forgiven Columbia Pictures! Oh yea the scenes of Catalina! WOW! When adults ruled the world, not a bunch of dumb teenage idiots! So because I hate the world now, and all of the crummy trash for movies since the 1970's, I give this picture ten stars, who cares if it's not that good, it's way better than pictures now! Oh, I think I left my Covid-19 mask down stairs! Damn it!
