A Girl in Every Port (1952 film)

Plot

Two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse. They go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.

Cast

Release

The film was released in theatres on January 8, 1952.

Critical review

A.W. of The New York Times writes in his review: "The parlay of Groucho Marx, Marie Wilson, William Bendix, to say nothing of a horse-racing mix-up, the United States Navy and sabotage should have paid off in plenty of laughs. But 'A Girl in Every Port,' which breezed into the Paramount yesterday, brimming with these ingredients, is merely an involved mélange of obvious antics and gags, only one or two of which are likely to generate chuckles. In directing this yarn about the zany adventures of a pair of veteran sailors who inherit a race horse, Chester Erskine has kept his story moving briskly. But in fashioning the scenario from a story by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, he has come up with uninspired situations and labored lines, which do the cast—with the exception of Groucho Marx—little good. The intricacies of the plot help, of course, to stymie their efforts. Once Groucho Marx and his good-natured but dumb brig-mate, William Bendix, acquire their nag, a hay burner by the name of Little Erin, they discover he can't run a furlong without falling down. They also learn, as the first of a series of amazing coincidences, that he has a twin named Shamrock, owned by a pretty waitress, improbably named Jane Sweet."