Follow the Fleet

This is one of the best Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films, or at least one of my favorites. Most of the A-R movies feature great dancing but sappy romance stories. This still has the courtship corniness but not as pronounced as... Full review

Musically speaking Irving Berlin gave Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers another pluperfect musical after Top Hat if that was possible. Although in this case like that Jerome Kern confection Roberta that they were in, Follow the Fleet retained Randolph Scott... Full review

One of the best of the Fred Astaire and Giner Rogers films. Great music by Irving Berlin. Solid support from Randolph Scott, Harriet Nelson, Lucille Ball, Betty Grable, Frank Jenks, and Astrid Allwyn.Terrific songs include "Let Yourself Go," "Let's Face... Full review

This is just a great, fun, lovely film. It captures the true essence of the decade and of the people, and tells a beautiful love story of two sisters with two sailors. Though this film may only be in Black... Full review

1936 was the most prolific year for Astaire and Rogers. Their second film for RKO that year is the third film in this collection – Mark Sandrich's 'Follow The Fleet.' This time out Astaire is painfully uncomfortable as Bake Baker,... Full review

This is my all-time favorite Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film. The dialogue between the two is so cute and funny and very clever. Not to mention this film contains some of the best songs recorded by the two; like... Full review

This film is nice because there are two love stories-- something of a plot departure, and the second couple (Randolph Scott and Harriet Hilliard Nelson) are given the bulk of the dramatics, which allow our stars to be looser, more... Full review

Although I enjoyed seeing Harriet Hilliard and Lucille Ball as other characters than Desi's "Lucy" and Ozzie's "Harriet", I would be happy to just watch the final dance number over and over and never see the rest of the movie--it's... Full review

FOLLOW THE FLEET (RKO Radio, 1936), directed by Mark Sandrich, marks the fifth pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and one of their top musicals of the era with a bright score by Irving Berlin, the composer of their... Full review

The plot intellect is about as light as feather down. But the advantage here is the boy and girl classic refusal we have become accustomed to in "The Gay Divorcee" and "Top Hat" is now absent. Instead of the typical... Full review

Cast as a sailor, Astaire is cheerfully unconvincing (the sight of him chewing gum is a hilarious visual oxymoron).....urdened with a dull plot but blessed with a rousing Irving Berlin score, Follow the Fleet is a problematic but rewarding Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film.....The print of Follow the Fleet that played on television during the '80s and '90s was just atrocious (you could barely see the image through all the scratches).....Some of Fred and Ginger's best numbers, but get thee behind me, Harriet H ... Full Review

Follow the Fleet is a problematic Follow the Fleet 's dances are dominated by Rogers's brassy sensibility, but Astaire wins her back to his world in this last transcendent number where they literally fly away from Earth. urdened with a dull plot ... Full Review