Follow the Fleet Details

1936

When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner. Features the classic hits 'Let's Face The Music And Dance', 'But Where Are You', 'Get Thee Behind Me Satan', and many other great numbers. Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Read more

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Follow the Fleet

When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner. Features the classic hits 'Let's Face The Music And Dance', 'But Where Are You', 'Get Thee Behind Me Satan', and many other great numbers. Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.

Starring	Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Lucille Ball
Director	Mark Sandrich
Studio	UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 50 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Music/Musical
Released	DVD: 01 Dec 2004 Production year: 1936
Format	DVD

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  Amiable star musical which makes heavy weather of a listless and overlong script, but has good numbers for those who can wait.

  • Halliwell's Film Guide
  • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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• 10 out of 15 people found this review helpful

  

  Packed with numbers

  This is a wonderful film of its genre. Another reviewer complained that the plot was thin ... well, it's a 1936 musical! It's got more songs and dances than any of the rest of the Rogers/Astaire series, including some of Irving Berlin's best (such as 'There may be trouble ahead ...'). By the way: the intro, by Fred Astaire's daughter, is worth listening to.

  • • David Rogers from London
    • Posted 18 Mar 2006 16:57

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• 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

  

  Amazing Dancing...terrible story.

  The plot of this film is so light as to be non-existant but lets face it, no one has ever watched Fred and Ginger because of the stories. As ever the dancing is out of this world, in particular the absolutely wonderful 'Lets face the music and Dance', which makes the movie worth renting all on its own. While not the best of the Fred and Ginger films and a little lighter on dancing than it could be, Follow the Fleet has a certain charm and is certainly not the worst of the series although the secondary plot involving Ginger's sister is annoying and takes screen time from the the 2 people I really wanted to watch.

  • • A customer from Newcastle, England
    • Posted 25 Mar 2005 23:11

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  When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner. Features the classic hits 'Let's Face The Music And Dance', 'But Where Are You', '...