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Released May 24, 1935
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
MGM
69.4 min. (Feature Film)

The SS Carolina is installing a new, top-secret gunnery system, which will be unveiled and tested for visiting foreign dignitaries. Navy Lt. Randolph (Robert Taylor) is in charge of the new system, and romancing his rich girl friend (Jean Parker). Ted Healy comes on board as a civilian electrical engineer who has an eye on the same "goil" as the ship's CPO, played by Nat Pendleton. Enemy activity leads to murder, with Ward Bond in an early role as the murder victim. Lt. Randolph is ordered to solve the killings and maintain national security by keeping the gunnery test on schedule.

Once again, MGM paired Healy and Pendleton as friendly adversaries, with good comic results. An MGM mystery feature is turned into a fun comic diversion due to their interplay.

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Avg. Rating: [6.50/10]
 
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Robert Taylor
Lt. Tom Randolph

Jean Parker
Betty Lansing

Ted Healy
Gabby Mac O'Neill

Nat Pendleton
CPO Spud Burke

Una Merkel
Toots Timmon

Arthur Byron
Capt. John Winslow

Donald Cook
Lt. Cmdr. David Tucker

John Hyams
Ambrose Justin

Leila McIntyre
Mrs. Justin

J. Anthony Hughes
Walter Drake

Jean Hersholt
Victor Hanson

Sam Labrador
Oriental crewman

Mischa Auer
Foreign Consul

Keye Luke
Consul Secretary

Ward Bond
Johnson

William Tannen
Pee Wee Adams

Frank Shields
Lt. Arnold

James P. Burtis
Winch operator

Tom Dugan
Greasy

Richard Tucker
Harry Jeffries

Mary Doran
Jenny Lane

Wally Maher
Bill Williams

Charles Sherlock
Sailor taking messages

Charles Sullivan
Sailor with fingerprint report

Lee Phelps
Officer disciplining guard

George Magrill
2nd guard on watch

Syd Saylor
CPO reporting to Winslow


Frank Wead
Screenplay

James Gleason
Screenplay

Joseph Sherman
Screenplay

Conrad A. Nervig
Film Editor

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Cedric Gibbons
Art Director

David Townsend
Associate Art Director

Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director

Fred Gabourie
Set Decoration

Edward Ward
Original Music

Al Shenberg
Assistant Director

George B. Seitz
Assistant Director


















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