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CREDITS
1942, 95 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Jack Cummings; Director, Edward Buzzell; Screenplay, Harry Clork, Harry Kurnitz and Irving Brecher; Cinematography, Leonard Smith; Music Direction, George Stoll; Art Direction, Merrill Pye; Choreography, Bobby Connolly.
CAST
Tallulah Winters, Eleanor Powell; Merton Kibble, Red Skelton; Skip Owens, Bert Lahr; Fran Evans, Virginia O'Brien; H.U. Bennett, William Post, Jr.; Stump, James Cross; Stumpy, Eddie Hartman; Art Higgins, Stuart Crawford; Dr. Farno, John Emery; Pietro Polesi, Bernard Nedell; Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (including Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers).
SONGS
I'll Take Tallulah; Poor You by E.Y. Harburg and Burton Lane; Last Call for Love by Harburg, Lane and Margery Cummings; Tampico by Walter Ruick; On Moonlight Bay by Percy Wenrich and Edward Madden.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"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!"
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM-UA Laserdisc
NOTES
"The film was unmitigated nonsense from start to finish, but Powell interrupted the narrative doldrums with her dancing. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"There are some relatively lively numbers, although Virginia O'Brien isn't as funny as she's meant to be."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies
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