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Chapter Twenty-nine

        The script and winging it by the actors overcome war-time bargain-basement production of rear-projection footage and toy-boat special-effects.

        Of course, period gags (in which the actors keep cracking up on camera) include a typical Bud Abbott shell game, Lou Costello's mathematical proof that 7 times 13 equals 28 and silly sea maneuvers under the command of Captain Costello, and last, classic songs by the Andrews Sisters

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