Academy Awards, USA 1942
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture Richard Hageman |
Universal Pictures
Directed by Frank Lloyd
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
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Nightclub singer Carol Bruce falls in love with the member of a French crew preparing for a trip to the Pacific northwest in the frontier days of the early 1800s. She is disguised as a boy and stows away on the voyage, but is soon discovered by its crotchety captain Walter Brennan. Fellow crew member Francot Tone also vies for her affections. There are echoes of Lloyd's far superior Mutiny on the Bounty, but Brennan lacks the bombast of Charles Laughton. Instead, we get a contrived love triangle and Indians speaking pigeon English.
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