Sailor's Luck

What a load of cack.

I had stopped writing film reviews as I was just watching too many to keep up. There are a sizeable number of films from the 1930s that I just didn't get around to writing up and, for this, I apologize to all my fans. However, this atrocity of a film has brought me back for a one-off as I feel that the 3 other reviewers have been very misleading in the drivel that they have written about this film. Having read their reviews, I bought myself a copy and I now feel it my duty to relay the truth about this nonsense.

The film is a love story wherein sailor James Dunn (Jimmy) and unemployed Sally Eilers (Sally) find happiness together. However, there is no real story as such. It's a case of idiot sailor falls in love with girl and she falls in love with him. The end. The genre is listed as a 'comedy' but it's not ever funny. It contains shouty scenes with so-called comedy characters and some "hilarious" prankster sailors running around adding nothing to the film other than to stretch the audience's patience.

Are we meant to identify with James Dunn? Impossible to do. He has a false innocence with an inane grin that makes him look stupid as he keeps his mouth constantly open (terrible acting). Shut your mouth when you're happy, you muppet!! And he has a horrendous jealousy streak which we are meant to identify with??!! It fuels his bullying behaviour which manifests itself in violence towards his girlfriend Eilers (whether tearing up clothes or smashing things) or punching innocent people such as Sally Eilers' dancing partner at the dance contest. He is meant to be a role model for us??!! This is just atrocious garbage with misguided messages to the youth and impressionable adults watching. The writers should be fined for submitting this rubbish. I have nothing good to say about any of the cast. It's a complete waste of time.

One added annoyance is that the imdb running time gives the film's length at 64 minutes. However, my copy ran for an insufferable 15 minutes longer than this.

It is just plain awful.

James Dunn's flair for comedy, and Sally Eilers' sexiness, added spark to this old Fox comedy. The older Fox films, before the merger with Twentieth Century Pictures, have not been as well preserved, vis a via say, MGM or Warner Brothers. I hope "Sailor's Luck" still survives.