Dismissed in Halliwell's Film Guide as "poor work all around", "Laughing Anne" must be more than just bad to explain why it stays in the memory. Despite some admittedly odd touches – it's not totally without merit.
This film was to have starred John Wayne and Anna Neagle,instead we get Wendell Corey and Margaret Lock wood. Corey has a tramp steamer in the tropics .
And it took Herbert Wilcox to get them together in 1954, and Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker got to take advantage of a loophole in the U.S.
There are Golden Turkeys and Platinum Turkeys and then there is Laughing Anne. I doubt if four leads have ever been more mis-matched in a movie.
