Ship Ahoy (1942)

Director
Edward Buzzell

Main cast
Eleanor Powell; Red Skelton; Bert Lahr; Virginia O'Brien; William Post Jr.

Genres
Comedy, Romance

Description
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.


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