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Sailor Beware (1952)

Sailor Beware poster
Directed by
Hal Walker
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
AA
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A sailor looking for romance gets tangled in a series of comic mishaps. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis play Navy men whose shore leave leads to chaos.

light-heartedplayfulfast-pacedslapstickwhimsicalcomediclivelybreezy

What happens

Sailor Beware is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It is an adaption of a 1933 Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson play of the same name. It was released on February 9, 1952, by Paramount Pictures. The working title was At Sea with the Navy. It was the fifth film collaboration of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who would make 16 movies together before their partnership's end. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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