Romance on the High Seas (1948) - June 16, 2020

[James Luckard]

Warner Archive just announced this, I'm very excited.


https://www.wbshop.com/collections/w...e-high-seas-bd

It's a charming musical comedy from the writers and director of Casablanca, with additional dialogue from Billy Wilder collaborator I.A.L. Diamond.

Doris Day shines in her first starring role. It's a clever farce about a wealthy couple whose marriage is falling apart due to the husband's overwork. The wife thinks he's having an affair, so she books a cruise to South America and pays a random girl (Day) to impersonate her on the cruise, while she stays in NY and spies on her husband.

Meanwhile, the husband also thinks the wife is having an affair, and pays a private eye to follow the wife on the cruise. The PI has never met the wife, so he doesn't know Day, booked on the ship under the wife's name, isn't her. He falls in love with Day and feels guilty, because he thinks she's his employer's wife. Multi-couple farce straight out of Shakespeare ensues. It also has a bunch of fun songs.

The DVD had a vintage cartoon, a vintage musical short and the trailer, presumably the BD will have the same extras.