Hit the Deck

Hit the Deck (1955)

Broadway's hit musical hits the screen splashed with COLOR and sensational CINEMASCOPE

Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.

Date of release
1955-02-24
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance
Director
Roy Rowland

Casting

Interesting facts

Hit the Deck is a 1955 American musical film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Vic Damone, Gene Raymond, Ann Miller, and Russ Tamblyn. It is based on the 1927 stage musical of the same name – which was itself based on the hit 1922 play Shore Leave by Hubert Osborne – and was shot in CinemaScope. Although the film featured some songs from the stage musical, the plot was different. Standards featured in the film include "Sometimes I'm Happy", "I Know that You Know", and "Hallelujah".

Production

RKO initially purchased the rights to the stage musical for the 1930 film musical Hit the Deck, then sold them to MGM in 1947. Hubert Osborne's play Shore Leave was also adapted for film multiple times, first in 1925 by First National Pictures, then as Follow the Fleet (1936), a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film with a score by Irving Berlin. The plot to MGM's Hit the Deck differed from all previous versions of the story.

The musical numbers for Hit the Deck were staged by Hermes Pan, best known as Fred Astaire's choreographer.

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