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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543239093
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 11211
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1951
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Product Description:
Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine story. Cooper plays Lieutenant John Harkness a wet-behind-the ears naval lieutenant who is given command of his first ship. Unfortunately not only is Harkness new to commanding a naval vessel but the crew and his subordinate officers are also new at their jobs. Only two old deck hands know the score. And while Harkness is trying to figure out naval protocol he also has to deal with the contraption in the engine room which turns out to be an elaborate steam engine that powers the ship. Paul Brenner All Movie GuideSystem Requirements:Running Time: 93 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 024543239093 Manufacturer No: 2233909
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Rating:  - Good Old Navy Know How
This is a very entertaining movie and definately not to be used as a real reference for the Navy. Gary Cooper and Eddie Albert bring laughter back into the military with this old favorite. Gary Cooper feels he has been let down being given a small vessel but he sure gives it all he has got to get the vessel tested for the Navy.
Rating: - ......HERE COMES THE US NAVY!!!........
....A hilarious comedy but with objectivity, too....#3 and #4 below critics sum up the movie OK...the cast is wonderful/perfect...Gary Cooper, the enticing Jane Greer, Eddie Albert, Charles Bronson, Jack Webb, Lee Marvin, Ray Collins, John McIntire, Jack Warden, Richard Erdman, Harry Von Zell, Ed Begley, Sr and Harvey Lembeck...all combine talents worthy of the price of admission by far...and the US Navy for art/direction...Cooper and Greer are both Navy officers and are Mr & Mrs but always away on official Navy duties; however, one scene finally finds them together for a weekend at a Navy fund-raiser and Jane Greer does a masterful job of telling her husband to shower up; Cooper, rather quizically, wonders why??...just the look at Greer's smiling eyes does Cooper finally realizes this is his 'lucky' nite after a long absence...they had chemistry these two for this scene as a married couple...all the shipboard shennanigans are rip/roaring for this entire unproven crew...the look on Admiral Ed Begley's face is slide/spliting, as he is inspecting the engine room gang's antics in the bowels of this lil tea/kettle of a ship...they are given a hopeless task to perform, but with great improvisation they succeed the impossible...by coming into the harbor of the Philadelphia Navy Yard at full speed on their sub/chaser is the raucous climax to this enjoyable/fun comedy...especially, any military service person will love this timely comedy during the early years of WW2 getting our Reserve Officers acclimated ... Read More
Rating: - OLD IS NEW AGAIN!!
Good transfer to DVD. My husband is an "Old Movie" fan and really enjoyed this.
Rating:  - A little disappointed.
Gary Cooper was such a wonderful actor, I was a bit disappointed with this film. Although I still enjoyed watching him.
Rating: - YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW
Gary Cooper is not generally known for his comedic roles, however his straight face as the captain of an experimental sub chaser during WWII adds to the fun this film generates. Ably supported by Eddie Albert, Jack Webb, Harvey Lembeck, Millard Mitchell et al, this is one of my all time favorites. Picked to prove the workability of a new type of steam engine as their propulsion unit, the crew does everything in it's power to make the "Beast" work, (by approved (or otherwise) means. While broken down in the middle of Chesapeake Bay in the middle of the night, the crew sights a tanker who they immediately signal for help by lamp. Their reply is quick in coming, not by signal lamp, but by a round from the tankers deck gun! The tug that keeps towing them back to base keeps a scorecard on it's deck house showing how many times the "U.S.S. Teakettle" has been brought home. Towards the end of the film, they finally get the "Beast" to work only to find that their throttles are frozen and they can't slow down! What follows is hilarious. This is a must see film! It hasn't lost it's punch over the years!
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