Directed by William K. Howard • 1936 • United States
Starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille
All aboard for mystery and mayhem in this stylishly entertaining cruise-ship comedy. Screwball virtuoso Carole Lombard does her best Garbo send-up playing an alluring Swedish beauty traveling via luxury ocean liner under the name of Princess Olga. Only the ship’s bandleader, King Mantell (Fred MacMurray), refuses to defer to Olga, sensing that she may not be all she claims. When a nefarious blackmailer is found murdered on the vessel and suspicion falls on Olga and Mantell, the two uneasy companions must join together to clear their names.
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Midnight
Directed by Mitchell Leisen • 1939 • United States
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The Flame of New Orleans
Directed by René Clair • 1941 • United States
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The Major and the Minor
Directed by Billy Wilder • 1942 • United States
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