Highest-Rated Movies about 'Shore Leave', Sort by Popularity
On the Town (1949), Letter to Brezhnev (1985), Madame Butterfly (1932), Kiss Them for Me (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Shore Leave movies.
#1. On the Town (1949)
Storyline: Three sailors - Gabey, Chip and Ozzie - let loose on a 24-hour pass in New York and the Big Apple will never be the same! Gabey falls head over heels for "Miss Turnstiles of the Month" (he thinks she's a high society deb when she's really a 'cooch dancer at Coney Island); innocent Chip gets highjacked (literally) by a lady cab driver; and Ozzie becomes the object of interest of a gorgeous anthropologist who thinks he's the perfect example of a "prehistoric man". Wonderful music and terrific shots of New York at its best.
Plot Keywords: sailor, actress, anthropologist, cab driver, lighthearted, playful, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
Storyline: Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can't forget him and writes a letter to Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: woman, friend, sailor, charming, passionate, england, liverpool, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Madame Butterfly (1932)
Storyline: Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton is on shore-leave in Japan. He and his buddy Lieutenant Barton, out for a night on the town, stop in at a local establishment to check out the food, drink and girls, 'uh, and girls' to quote Lt. Barton. Pinkerton spies Cho-Cho San and immediately falls in lust. Barton counsels Pinkerton that he can 'marry' this beautiful Japanese girl, enjoy himself with cultural approval, then sail happily on back to America unshackled, since abandonment equates divorce in Japan. Barton assures Pinkerton that once abandoned, Cho-Cho will be free to marry whomever she chooses from amongst the Japanese people. When Pinkerton's ship sails out of port, Butterfly waits patiently for her husband to come home. Three years pass. Ever with her eye toward the harbor, Butterfly holds a secret delight that she eagerly wishes to surprise her husband with: their son. Pinkerton arrives in Japan with his American bride by his side. He goes to Butterfly to make his apologies and to finally end what Butterfly for three years has cherished in her heart.—Debbie Dunlap <dwdunlap@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: naval officer, young girl, child, bride, geisha, suitor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!#4. Kiss Them for Me (1957)
Storyline: Three decorated Navy pilots finagle a four day leave in San Francisco. They procure a posh suite at the hotel and Commander Crewson, a master of procurement, arranges to populate it with party people. Lieutenant Wallace is trying to get the pilots to make speeches to rally the homefront at shipyard magnate Eddie Turnbill's plants, but they're tired of the war and just want to have fun. While Crewson begins falling in love with Turnbill's fiancée Gwinneth Livingston, he tries to ignore the distant call of war.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: pilot, pr person, war profiteer, fiancée, bombshell, witty, amusing ...
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