{"id":30248,"date":"2022-07-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30248"},"modified":"2022-07-21T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:35:36","slug":"ship-ahoy-1942-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30248","title":{"rendered":"Ship Ahoy \u00a0(1942) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z072722zview_shipahoy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"861\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ship Ahoy<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Edward Buzzell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 <strong>Harry Clork, Irving Brecher <\/strong>(uncredited),<strong>Harry Kurnitz <\/strong>(uncredited) from a story by <strong>Matt Brooks, Bradford Ropes, Bert Kalmar<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia O&#8217;Brien <\/strong>and <strong>Tommy Dorsey &amp; His Orchestra<\/strong> featuring <strong>Frank Sinatra<\/strong> and <strong>Buddy Rich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0 &#8220;Red&#8221;, Radio&#8217;s Bad Boy, Is Good In This One!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tallulah Winters (Powell) is a dancer who performs with Tommy Dorsey.\u00a0 As they are about to leave on a ship bound for Puerto Rico, Tallulah is duped by Japanese spies into carrying a prototype magnetic mine with her.\u00a0 Tallulah thinks she is working for the US government.\u00a0 On board the ship Tallulah meets Merton K. Kibble (Skelton), a prolific writer of pulp stories.\u00a0 They are well on their way to falling in love when she overhears Kibble dictating a story and believes he is talking about her.\u00a0 Confusion ensues as the Japanese try to get the prototype and Kibble tries to get the girl&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;ve never seen a Red Skelton movie, this is one I&#8217;d recommend to try first.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a lot of fun.\u00a0 There are love story and spy subplots.\u00a0 Bert Lahr provides comedy relief &#8212; he and Skelton make a great team.\u00a0 Plus you get Frank Sinatra singing in his movie debut!\u00a0 (I also learned that Buddy Rich was with Tommy Dorsey and that the word &#8220;groovy&#8221; was in use in 1942!)\u00a0<em> Ship Ahoy<\/em> is a fun trip and rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z072722zview_shipahoy2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ship Ahoy \u00a0(1942) Director:\u00a0 Edward Buzzell Screenplay by:\u00a0 Harry Clork, Irving Brecher (uncredited),Harry Kurnitz (uncredited) from a story by Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30249,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30248\/revisions\/30249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}