Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Tagline:
« Romance and Laughter…under a Rio moon! »
Actors:
Peter Virgil
Elvira Kent
Michael Kent
Georgia Garrett
Oscar Farrar
Rating:
(3’077 votes)
(3’077 votes)
Quotes:
« Michael Kent: Are you a good detective?
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« Peter Virgil: Naturally, why?
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« Michael Kent: Where did you do your traning?
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« Peter Virgil: In the army. Intelligence G2.
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« Michael Kent: Well how are you at the job?
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« Peter Virgil: We won the war didn't we?
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« Dudley: Oh! How do you do, Miss Garrett?
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« Georgia Garrett: Greetings, chum!
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« Dudley: My, we haven't seen you, let's see now, since you didn't go to Switzerland.
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« Georgia Garrett: Yeah, I got a big kick out of planning that trip. What looks good this time of year?
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« Dudley: How about the Canadian Rockies?
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« Georgia Garrett: Canadian Rockies? Don't you remember? I already haven't been there!
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« Michael Kent: My wife is leaving day after tomorrow on a South American cruise and, well, she insists on going without me.
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« Peter Virgil: Hm. And to a man of your suspicious nature that means only one thing: Another man on the boat.
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« Michael Kent: Well, you see, I don't know, but that's what I want you to find out.
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« Peter Virgil: Well, you've come to the right man. I have handled so many of these cases.
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[phone rings]
« Peter Virgil: Excuse me.
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[picks up phone]
« Peter Virgil: Hello?…Oh yes, how are you?…Well, certainly I shadowed your wife. I hate to tell you this, but you were right, she's been two-timing you.
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[we hear a thud on the other end of the line]
« Peter Virgil: Hello? Hello?
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[aside to Mr. Kent]
« Peter Virgil: He fainted.
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[hangs up phone]
« Peter Virgil: Sometimes there's a shot. Now where were we?
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« Michael Kent: Well, Mr. Virgil, I want you to get on the same boat with my wife and shadow her.
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« Peter Virgil: Hey now, wait a minute! That means I'll have to leave all of my business!
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« Michael Kent: I'll make it up to you.
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« Peter Virgil: Well, I can tell you right now without batting an eyelash it'll cost you $1000 a week.
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« Michael Kent: Well, that's a little steep, isn't it, old boy?
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« Peter Virgil: Yes, yes it is, but, uh, I'll probably get seasick.
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« Michael Kent: Well, all right, all right, I'll book your passage.
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« Peter Virgil: Hm. Now, uh, move your chair a little closer, will you? There's a little confidential information I must have.
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[phone rings]
« Peter Virgil: Excuse me.
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[picks up phone]
« Peter Virgil: Hello?
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[we hear a gunshot on the other end of the line]
« Peter Virgil: Well, whaddya know? He didn't even wait for me to tell him!
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Trailer:
Trailer
Runtime:99 minutes
Plots:
Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.
Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. When he announces he can’t join her on their scheduled ocean voyage, she hires a nightclub singer, Georgia Garrett, to pose as her on the cruise. Elvira stays at a hotel near home so she can spy on her husband. She’s unaware, however, that her husband has hired a detective, Peter Virgil, to keep an eye on her at sea. Of course, Peter doesn’t realize that Georgia is not Mrs. Kent…
Wealthy Michael and Elvira Kent, who are celebrating their third wedding anniversary, have never trusted the faithfulness of the other. For Elvira, that suspicion stems in large part from Michael always baling at the last minute from taking an anniversary trip as he always seems to be called off on a business trip for the pharmacy conglomerate where he works which is owned by Elvira’s Uncle Lazlo. So when Michael bales again on their planned third wedding anniversary trip – a round trip cruise between New York and Rio de Janeiro – Elvira decides to test Michael’s faithfulness by pretending to go on the trip. In reality, Elvira is staying in New York, she who hires a private investigator to spy on Michael. Further, Elvira hires Georgia Garrett, a rough-around-the-edges penniless honky-tonk singer who she meets at the travel agency, to take the all expenses paid trip in her place. Georgia will pretend to be Elvira in every aspect, including maintaining a proper image which means no improper fraternizing with men on board. Michael, in turn, believes Elvira is meeting her lover on board, and as such hires his own private investigator, Peter Virgil, to shadow Elvira on the cruise. Complications ensue when Peter falls in love with who he believes is Elvira but is really Georgia, while Georgia falls in love with Peter, with who she can’t have a relationship since she is supposed to be married Mrs. Elvira Kent. A second level of complications arise when Georgia’s wannabe boyfriend, pianist Oscar Farrar, follows Georgia on board. And a third level of complications arise when Elvira and Michael individually decide to be in Rio when the ship docks to find out first hand what’s going on. Uncle Lazlo seems to be around for all the proceedings and seems to know everything that is transpiring, but he just doesn’t know what secrets to keep and which to divulge.
