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Hearing a drunken sailor (I think it was the captain himself)in this 61 year old delightful film, singing that nine word song to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers, over and over again, for the first time in at least seventy years today, immediately caused me to increase my rating by two points, from 7 to 9. I know I'll be singing it again repeatedly for weeks and months and maybe even years to come!

This movie and I have something in common. We have both been just released (with less than three months difference in age) 85 years ago! And of course we are both wonderful. I saw the film for the very first time two days ago and found it most delightful, I concurring with most of the comments posted by the fifteen user reviewers to date. But there is one problem which, unfortunately, is insoluble. At the same time as I saw the movie, all of the world media, including the social media, was filled with the news that the Queen of Great Britain, had ruled that her grandson Harry and his wife Meagan could no longer retain the title of His or Her Royal Highness nor fulfill most of their royal functions and duties as long as they took up residence for part of each year (as they declared was their intention to do) in Canada (where I was born and lived my entire life and where the Queen is still the titular Head of State). If the author of this movie,Vicki Baum, and the screenwriters could have rewritten the very end of it so that Ramon Navarro had married Evelyn Laye, with or without the Emperor's approval, and they lived happily ever after, then the movie's audience would likewise have been able to leave the theaters or homescreens equally content, Regretfully, as mentioned above, this is not to be.