All Ashore
| All Ashore | |
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Original film poster
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| Directed by | Richard Quine |
| Written by | Blake Edwards |
| Starring |
Mickey Rooney Peggy Ryan |
| Music by | Fred Karger (songs) Robert Wells (lyrics) George Duning Nelson Riddle (arrangements) |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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March 3, 1953 |
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Running time
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80 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
All Ashore is a 1953 Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Richard Quine. It is the second of Mickey Rooney's three films for Columbia Pictures produced by Jonie Taps, directed by Richard Quine and written by Blake Edwards.
In the tradition of MGM's Anchors Aweigh and On the Town, the film tells the stories of three sailors (Rooney, crooner Dick Haymes and dancer Ray McDonald) on shore leave on Santa Catalina Island, California, where much of the film was shot. A former MGM contract star, McDonald was married to Peggy Ryan at the time, with All Ashore being the last film for both of them.
Three petty officers have returned from Korea on the battle cruiser USS Rochester where they are due for shore leave in California. Skip and Joe have no money due to losses in a crap game, but their shipmate Francis "Moby" Dickerson has $300 he won in poker. Skip and Joe have constantly taken advantage of Moby throughout their cruise and once again beg some money off him. Moby wishes to spend his leave on Santa Catalina but his shipmates take an unwilling Moby to an off-limits clip joint bar where bargirls and a bartender drug and rob them of all their money.
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