Directed by Howard Hawks
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Spike is a burly sailor who travels the world, stopping at various ports of call to look up old lovers. He notices that they all have the same memento from another sailor, an anchor and heart, who is traveling the same route ahead of him. He catches up with the man in a bar, where they have a brawl but then become best friends. The buddies continue to travel from port to port, drinking, fighting and meeting women. Spike falls in love with the magnetic Louise Brooks in Paris, the star of a high diving act. He's ready to settle down, but she is just interested in his life savings, not to mention her tattoo of an anchor and heart. An entertaining combination of comedy, romance and melodrama, if you can look beyond the machismo.
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