No Place Like Movies at Home: Follow the Fleet

 We are halfway there and I am a little sad about it. We have five more movies until we are done with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. I am sad because all I want is to have many more movie but they only made 10. At least once we move on from here I don't have to go back to the drudge of bad Sinatra films. 

Today's movie is Follow the Fleet.

Two sailors are finally getting the chance to go on leave! They have been waiting for this moment for some time and they want to dance and see all the pretty girls! Bake Baker (Astaire) is ready to get to shore and call up an old girl of his, whom he had asked to marry at one point and was denied. Bilge Smith (Randolph Scott) is ready to meet all of the girls that he can. They go to a dance club, and as movie magic would have it, Baker runs into his old flame Sherry Martin (Rogers). Sherry's sister, Connie (Harriett Nelson), is trying to get into the club but they won't let her in unless she has a man with her. Standing outside at that same time is Smith. She uses him to get into the building to find her sister but he doesn't pay much attention to her because she is on the plain side. However, once her sister and her friends at the club help her to get dolled up a little she is back out there with Smith and he can't get his eyes off of her. Problems arise with both couples as they usually do. In order to make up for the lack of work that she has been getting, Baker starts sabotaging a girl during an audition for a buddy of his without realizing that it's Sherry. Smith is avoiding Connie because, while he is crazy about her, the idea of settling down and getting married terrifies him. Hopefully, they all can make it work out in the end. 

I am not sure why some of these Astaire and Rogers films are ones that I don't watch that often. I mean, Flying Down to Rio is the only one that I can say that I don't watch much because they aren't the real stars of that movie. Follow the Fleet I love every time I watch it so I am not sure why I don't just sit and watch it when the mood strikes for one of their films. However, this film is funny and has some great dance numbers in it. Astaire always looks good in a Sailors uniform, most men do just saying. I am glad that this film has a different plot than the rest. The only mistaken identity in this film is when Astaire thinks that the girl in the audition is not Sherry and it really is. 

Now, is this my all time favorite movie of theirs? No, but it's still a great film to watch. I have to say that I am glad that I am only back and watching these because some of them have been years since it's last viewing. A number of Years. So, I am glad that I get to watch these with fresh eyes and get to appreciate them more now that I did then.