Let's Go Native

Let's Go Native

Paramount's wild, merry, mad hilarious farce!

NR 1930 · 77 min · ★ 7.7 · Music, Comedy

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

Directed by Leo McCarey · Written by Percy Heath

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