When two sailors, Clarence (a very young Frank Sinatra) and Joe (Gene Kelly) find themselves on leave in Los Angeles, they end up caught up in an adventure to get a beautiful opera-wannabe Susan Abbot (Kathryn Greyson) a screen test before the still famous music producer, Jose Itrubi (who played himself). Anchors Aweigh is a perfect marriage of comedy and music and is as accessible and fun today as it was upon its release in 1945. Directed by George Sidney with a full-on Hollywood style that has since vanished it has several great dance sequences, most notably when Kelly does his "Mexican Hat Dance" piece with the wee Mexican girl (played by Sharon McManus).
For the music and dance sequences (and ignoring the rest) Anchors Aweigh gets my rating of 6 out of 10.
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