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Director
  
Edward F. Cline

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Musical

Country
  
United States

Release date
  
September 12, 1930 (1930-09-12) (Premiere-New York City)September 22, 1930 (1930-09-22) (US)

Based on
  
musical comedy play, Present Arms by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields

Writer
  
Herbert Fields (play), Alfred Jackson, John W. Krafft (titles), Jane Murfin

Music director
  
Oscar Levant, Sidney Clare, Victor Baravalle

Story by
  
Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Herbert Fields

Cast
  
Irene Dunne
,
Ken Murray
,
Louise Fazenda
,
Lilyan Tashman

Similar movies
  
Irene Dunne appears in Leathernecking and Bachelor Apartment

Leathernecking (1930) is an American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline, from a screenplay by Alfred Jackson and Jane Murfin, adapted from the Broadway musical comedy Present Arms, by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields.

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Although based on a musical, it used only two of the original Rodgers and Hart songs from the Broadway hit, along with original songs, including three by Oscar Levant and Sidney Clare. An early part-color feature film with a Technicolor insert, this film was Irene Dunne's film debut, although no copies of it are thought to exist.

Plot

Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over. His first plan involves impersonating an officer in order to get invited to a society party. However, when his Marine buddies decide to crash the party as well, his real rank is revealed, and so having the opposite effect on Delphine as he had planned.

Despondent, he bares his soul to a mutual friend, Edna, who arranges to have the two reunited on Delphine's yacht at sea. However, this meeting goes terribly wrong as well, and a desperate Chick convinces the yacht's captain to fake a shipwreck in order to give him time to win Delphine over. Unfortunately, a real storm arises and the ship is actually wrecked, coming to rest on a desert island. While on the island, Chick's persistence pays off, and he gets the girl. Not only that, on their return to Honolulu, he is hailed as a hero and promoted to captain.

Cast

  • Irene Dunne as Delphine Witherspoon
  • Ken Murray as Frank
  • Louise Fazenda as Hortense
  • Ned Sparks as Reynolds (Sparks)
  • Lilyan Tashman as Edna
  • Eddie Foy Jr. as Chick Evans
  • Benny Rubin as Stein
  • Rita La Roy as Fortune Teller
  • Fred Santley as Douglas
  • William von Brinken as Richter
  • Carl Gerard as Colonel
  • Werther Weidler as Richter's son
  • Wolfgang Weidler as Richter's son

    • (Cast list as per AFI database)

    Songs (partial list)

  • "You Took Advantage Of Me"
  • "A Kiss For Cinderella"
  • "All My Life"
  • "Careless Kisses"
  • "Evening Star"
  • "Mighty Nice and So Particular"
  • "Shake It Off and Smile"

    • "You Took Advantage Of Me" and "A Kiss For Cinderella" were written by Rodgers and Hart. The other songs were written by Oscar Levant and Sidney Clare, except for "All My Life", which had words and music by Benny Davis and Harry Akst.

    References

    Leathernecking Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Leathernecking IMDb


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