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Swing High Swing Low


Date: 1937
Type: Romance / Musical
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Producer: Artthur Hornblow

Comment/Synopsis

A woman (Carole Lombard) travelling on a boat through the Panama canal agrees to a date with a man (Fred MacMurray) . They get into a bar fight and she misses her boat. Broke, she moves in with him and gets a job in the same bar he works at as a musician. Altthough romance blossoms, the path is rocky not least as Dorothy Lamour also has designs on him. The plot is not great, the songs are not memorable and the trumpet gradually gets more annoying as the film goes on. Disappointing given the film features both Carole Lombard and Dorothy Lamour.

Oscars

None
Production
Paramount Pictures
Swing High Swing Low