WAY FOR A SAILOR (1930) ¢ 1/2
D: Sam Wood
John Gilbert, Wallace Beery, Leila Hyams,
Jim Tully, Polly Moran, Doris Lloyd
A broadly played, early sound comedy starring John Gilbert and Wallace Beery as merchant seamen on shore leave. Various factors contributed to the collapse of Gilbert's career in the 1930s. His voice, his alcoholism and the wrath of Louis B. Mayer were all part of it, and so were movies like this. He made a couple of decent talkies, but "Way For a Sailor" wasn't one of them. The boys shoulda stayed on the boat.
