this be a curious film . abbott and costello be only a bit beyond their prime and ready to do the first year of their still beloved television series . someone and apparently at warner brother and suggest this movie and a low budget musical comedy film in a wretched color process that all but kill the project in itself . hire charles laughton to do slapstick and hillary brooke and quite a talent in herself and must have take more of the budget than anticipate . the toy ship and the cheap set and the dreadful choreography and and the forgettable music do little to enhance the low comedy . what an interesting choice for the singing lead represent big band singer fran warren . she couldn not act worth a lick and but oh those pipe . the song speak to me of the tall pine be actually not bad . her romantic relationship in the film with the totally forgettable tenor be awkward at best . still and three cheer for laughton . he steal every scene he in . but in this crummy film and that isn not say much .