Hit the Deck is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film directed by Luther Reed and starring Jack Oakie and Polly Walker, with Technicolor sequences.

[3] Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times critic, gave the film a lackluster review, writing that it "is anything but an inspired entertainment.

That musical was based on an earlier play, Shore Leave, written by Hubert Osborne, which premiered in New York City on August 8, 1922.

[1] The play had been made into a silent film, also entitled Shore Leave, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill.

Osborne's play would also be remade into another musical version, Follow the Fleet, in 1936, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Before leaving Bilge promises Lavinia who works at Looloo's coffee shop (played by Marguerita Padula) that he will be back in half an hour.