This film essentially involves two sailors named "Cake O'Hara" (Jack Oakie) and "Powerhouse Bolton" (Jack Haley) who constantly finds themselves in financial difficulty due to their poor gambling instincts and general conniving attitudes. Needless to say, all of their shipmates are privy to these facts and have little regard for their opinions. That changes, however, when the two of them learn that the best gunner in the fleet by the name of "Homer Matthews" (Herbert Anderson) is being transferred to their ship and they immediately stake everything on his being able to win the upcoming target championship for them. What they fail to realize, however, is that the assignment is only temporary and Homer is set to be discharged from the ship prior to the competition-which leaves them in a terrible bind with their rest of the crew. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was a mediocre comedy which had only one saving grace-the presence of Ann Sheridan (as "Marge Jordan") who almost single-handedly salvaged this film from almost certain irrelevance as the humor wasn't that sharp and the musical numbers lacked vitality as well. That being said, while I don't consider this to be a good comedy necessarily, I suppose it was good enough for the time spent and I have rated it accordingly. Average.
Review of Navy Blues
