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Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh

Music · Comedy · Romance · 1945

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

Movie details

Anchors Aweigh

“ON WAVES OF SONG, LAUGHTER AND ROMANCE ! TWO LOVE-LOST SAILORS ON A FOUR-DAY LEAVE OF FUN AND FRIVOLITY !”

1945 Music · Comedy · Romance 2h 23m

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6.8 / 10

Community rating

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

George Sidney

Written by

Natalie Marcin · Isobel Lennart

Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Clarence Doolittle

Kathryn Grayson

Kathryn Grayson

Susan Abbott

Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly

Joseph Brady

José Iturbi

José Iturbi

José Iturbi

Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell

Donald Martin

Pamela Britton

Pamela Britton

Girl from Brooklyn

Rags Ragland

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Police Sergeant

Court is in session

Put Anchors Aweigh on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.