RogerMooreTheBestBond Review of Sail a Crooked Ship

Sail a Crooked Ship (1961)

Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frankie Avalon & Ernie Kovacs in a really funny and all around entertaining film

[10/10 · 5 December 2019]

I saw this movie probably 20 years ago. I remember liking it and I remember Frankie Avalon spinning around on the ship wheel! I just purchased it on DVD and was so happy I did. It was as good or even better than I remember. The story basically follows Robert Wagner who wants to fix up a ship, to show his father in law to be, that they are worth salvaging instead of scrapping. Dolores Hart plays his wife to be who is always telling him to wait until they are married! He ends up hiring Ernie Kovacs and crew to fix it up for him. He is not aware that Kovacs is a crook, a bad one at that. His crew includes his innnocent nephew played by Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin, the brains, Jesse White, the man with the gun & Harvey Lembeck. Carolyn Jones play Kovacs girlfriend. Kovacs has the idea to fix the ship, take it to Boston, rob a bank, and then make their get away on the ship. The majority of the film takes place on the ship and there are so many good scenes. Robert Wagner and the crew take a lot of abuse from the storm they run into on the trip. Wagner takes a lot of abuse from the water from the storm. That water truly looked like ocean water! Anyway, give this movie a chance, it's really worth buying.