Film director Axel von Ambesser and screen writer Richard Romanowsky board a liner for a one-week cruise, and all the young women on board bribe waiter Alfred Neugebauer to be seated near him so they can promote a film career. The one woman who doesn't seem interested is Marte Harell, whom von Ambesser observes being approached by Curd Jürgens approaches. He's a police officer and accuses her of having killed her husband. She confesses, but asks not to be arrested before the cruise's end; there's no way she can leave the ship. Jürgens agrees. Con Ambesser is enchanted, convinced of her innocence, and tries to get her off.
It's a light, frothy, albeit lesser comedy directed by Willi Forst, with a funny cast, and Margot Hielscher -- who tries to promote her own film career by vamping Romanowsky with a cookbook -- sings the title song a couple of times. The plot zigs three or four times in unexpected ways, and it's consistently amusing, with witty lines, silly situations, and a fast pace, once you get past the fact that it's a romantic comedy set on a seagoing cruise ship in 1943.
It's a light, frothy, albeit lesser comedy directed by Willi Forst, with a funny cast, and Margot Hielscher -- who tries to promote her own film career by vamping Romanowsky with a cookbook -- sings the title song a couple of times. The plot zigs three or four times in unexpected ways, and it's consistently amusing, with witty lines, silly situations, and a fast pace, once you get past the fact that it's a romantic comedy set on a seagoing cruise ship in 1943.