musical stream The Singing Marine (1937)

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THE SINGING MARINE (Warner Brothers, 1937), directed by Ray Enright, with two staged numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley, returns Dick Powell in military uniform, this time, the United States Marines. Unlike his predecessors, FLIRTATION WALK (1934) and SHIPMATES FOREVER (1935), in which Powell played a West Point cadet and an Annapolis Navy man respectively, this military musical comes off more comically and musically in its 108 minutes, with a couple of fist fights added in for good measure.