April ended yesterday and we've already had our annual trip to the April Showers, but I just discovered one this morning that I forgot about! I was engaging with a reader from Poseidon's Underworld in an older post that contained Pat Boone and as I was searching for the movie in question I clanked up against another one of his, 1958's
Mardi Gras. Now someday I'm gonna get ahold of this thing in its restored, wide-screen glory. For now, all I can ever locate online is a faded, panned 'n scanned version which eliminates visual elements and reduces detail. Nevertheless, this is a fun shower-oriented moment. You can watch it in action
right here. I know not everyone is a fan of Pat Boone and I understand the reasons why, but he was rather dreamy in his hey-day.
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| Co-stars of the scene in question are Gary (son o' Bing) Crosby, Tommy Sands and Pat Boone. They play military cadets who are invited to perform musically in a Mardi Gras parade and find themselves romantically entangled (with some girls) once in New Orleans. |
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| Near the end of the movie, the buds are heading into the shower room in their smartly-colored robes and soon break into the song "Loyalty." |
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At no point in the song can the threesome trio seem to resist putting their hands on one another. Each has a long-handled back scrubber tucked into the waistband of his robe as well. |
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| Sands takes his brush and begins rubbing it against the palm of his hand while he's singing! |
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| Hell, if I'd had any inkling that this was cadet life, I would have been in line to sign up out of high school...! |
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| Naturally, they're singing about the opposite sex and its effect on their brotherhood, but without the sound, it looks a bit campy, doncha think? Sands, by the way, who was so damned cute at this time, had a real habit of jutting his jaw way out and singing sideways from his mouth. Crosby repeatedly committed one of my own pet peeve singing sins. He often sang with his eyes shut. |
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| Still not quite ready to hit the showers, Sands gets his hand on Boone's handle... |
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| ...then Boone has both hands on it. The moment ends (you can't make this shit up) with Crosby patting the rounded bottom part, sending it shooting upward! |
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| Finally, they begin to disrobe. The rest of the song is presented with them ostensibly naked. |
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| Crosby and Sands aren't in any real hurry to get to their shower heads. |
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| Boone however, aims a shocking squirt of water onto Crosby's nether regions! |
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| And Sands dives on in. |
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| Then gives Boone a taste of his own medicine. I don't think more than one (shower) head gets turned on in this sequence! |
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| That's because the party is interrupted by the fourth cadet featured in the film, Dick Sargent of all people! (Those are Crosby's paws on Sands here.) Sargent comes in, fully-dressed, to tell Boone he's wanted elsewhere on the double. He probably switched agents after being left out of all the handsy, wet fun! |
So that's it. I hope someday to see this scene in its glory since the cropped rendition often leaves one of the three gents out of frame. It would be fun to see them all together in the altogether! Ha ha! (Not that we really see very much in this demure movie. It's still a fun bit of shenanigans in a "clean" flick.
