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You will not see sailors, ghosts, or anything remotely exciting.
A shipload of
sailors
trying to get to the towns daughters while their fathers go to extremes to deter the
sailors
attempts.
ANCHORS AWEIGH sees two eager young sailors, Joe Brady (Gene Kelly) and Clarence Doolittle/Brooklyn (Frank Sinatra), get a special four-day shore leave.
Joseph Brady and Clarence Doolittle are two sailors, who have a four-day shore leave in Hollywood.Joe knows everything about girls and can't wait to see Lola, while Clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls.They then run into a little boy, Donald Martin, who has ran away in order to join the navy.They take him home and meet his beautiful aunt Susan, who wants to be a singer.Clarence wants Susie to be his girl, but his shyness gets in the way.But he doesn't feel shy with a waitress, who comes from Brooklyn, like he does.Soon Joe notices he's in love with Susie.The boys are in a fix when they lie to Susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don't even know.As they are in a fix with their feelings.George Sidney's Anchors Aweigh (1945) is a great musical comedy.Gene Kelly is top-notch, once again, in his singing and dancing routines.Frank Sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from Brooklyn.Shy isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Frank Sinatra, but he plays his part well.Kathryn Grayson is fantastic as Susan Abbott.We sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of 88.The 9-year old Dean Stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor.Jose Iturbi does great job performing himself.It's magic what he does with the piano.Edgar Kennedy plays Chief of police station.Sara Berner is the voice of Jerry Mouse.There's a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers.Just look at Kelly and Sinatra performing "We Hate to Leave".It's so energetic."If
Similar to "On the Town," this musical about
sailors
on shore leave falls short of the later classic in terms of pacing and the quality of the songs, but it has its own charms.
Kelly and Sinatra play Joe Brady and Clarence Doolittle, two
sailors
on leave in Hollywood who befriend a young boy (Dean Stockwell)who introduces them to his attractive young aunt (Kathryn Grayson) a struggling actress who is working as an extra at MGM.
The paper-thin plot leaves room for several great musical numbers including "We Hate to Leave", Joe and Clarence's lament to their fellow
sailors
as they're leaving the ship; Grayson's torrid rendition of "Jalousie"; Sinatra's dreamy rendition of "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (a number which is sadly deleted from some prints of this film), and "The Worry Song", a fantasy dance that Kelly does with animated Jerry the Mouse from Tom and Jerry fame.
It is another
sailors
on leave film, zippier than Astaire's 'Follow the Fleet' but not as good as 'On The Town'.
Two
sailors
go on liberty to see if they can find love and romance.
It captures the true essence of the decade and of the people, and tells a beautiful love story of two sisters with two
sailors.
Two
sailors
are on leave--ladies man Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) and shy innocent Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra).
Though the
sailors
may complain in chorus about the monotony of the ocean, it seems that their oceanic duties are completely non-existent, and somehow Fred Astaire finds enough free time during the day to offer dancing classes to a fleet of would-be romantics.
One of several musicals about
sailors
on leave, it is the usual sailor meets girl, complications ensue, sorted out happily kind of plot.
Anyway, Anchors Aweigh tells the story of two
sailors
on a three- or four-day leave.
Arnold also fights a group of
sailors
with a plank and throws them in the sea, the sound effects and horrible choreography in that scene is hilarious.
Kind of like
sailors
on liberty the three are looking for a good time and after an uneasy dinner with the couple strike out in search of female companionship.
Lot's of movies had soldiers and
sailors
bucking the system, living it up and playing small time rackets ala McHale's Navy but when the chips came down you could count on them to come through.
It is about a ship traveling through dangerous waters to bring war supplies to besieged England, and centers on the conflicts, dreams and sufferings of the
sailors
who inhabit the ship.
This one of John Ford's least self-conscious movies, there's no heavy Americana to deal with and he directs you to the heart of the story and the often drunken emotions of the
sailors.
The photography and sound bring a hyper-reality to this tale of merchant sailors, fearful for their lives, argumentative yet loving, full of weakness but capable of strength and honor.
The theme song, bearing the original title "Vampire Hookers," is goofy and tasteless, like the rest of the movie, which gives you xenophobia (locals feed the
sailors
duck embryos) and homosexual panic (a cross-dresser at a urinal, plus the line "Hey!
The comic parts are mostly from the portrayal of south and north (the north officer always stand on the left,north Korean soldiers' arrogance...) I love the ending very much, when Admiral Lee's 13 ships had to face the 300 ships from Japan (a real battle in history which Koreans won), he motivated his sailors: as we are united, there's nothing can stop us.
Dreary and flatly directed, 'The Philadelphia Experiment' is a disappointing lump based on a supposedly true story in which
sailors
Michael Pare and Bobby Di Cicco are transported from 1943 to 1984 during a radar test.
It's actually more of a promotional film than a documentary, urging
sailors
to join the union & extolling the benefits, etc etc.
At the beginning of WWII Churchill said we've tools, but very brave American
sailors
have brought England weapons and many other War-material.
I see only a few faults other than those listed---officers and
sailors
out on deck watching 11 inch shells going over their heads--and they have no battle gear on?
There's Nazi bikers, foggoty race cars, kick-boxing, castration, the rape of virgins, disembowelment,
sailors
dancing, scenes from a guy in the crapper, public sex, an Oedipus complex, an S&M Dominatrix, hideously inappropriate metal music by a band named "Krokus", skinny-dipping, sluts with big breasts, sluts with small breasts, grenades, males that wear girlish panties over their own pants, randomly crashing cars, exploding bikes, suicide bombing, wheelchair catapulting, exaggerated fake laughter, demented dialogs, stabbing, death by hedge clippers, bathtub sex, no coppers, massive loads of pubic hair and the inevitable greatest dubbing job in the history of cinema!
I've seen this movie in the ORIGINAL WIDESCREEN VERSION with audiences as diverse as art house theaters, US Navy ships on deployment, and home viewing with friends, and even in the midst of
sailors
on 8 month deployments there was a genuine enjoyment of the plot and characters.
A great movie about high adventure on the seas, with ships being wrecked, pirating, and two beautiful women vieing for the love of two handsome and bold
sailors.
It wasn't just a sea battle, it was political, involving sailors, spies, and bad cafe singing.
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