You're in the Navy Now
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| You're in the Navy Now | |
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| Directed by | Henry Hathaway |
| Produced by | Fred Kohlman |
| Written by | John W. Hazard (magazine article) Richard Murphy |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Jane Greer Millard Mitchell Eddie Albert John McIntire Ray Collins Jack Webb |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
| Release date(s) | February 23, 1951 (USA) |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
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You're in the Navy Now is a Hollywood film released in 1951 by Twentieth Century Fox about the United States Navy in the first months of World War II. The film is a comedy starring Gary Cooper as a new officer wanting a command at sea but who is instead assigned to an experimental project without much hope of success.
Filmed in black and white aboard PC-1168, an active Navy patrol craft, You're in the Navy Now featured the film debuts of both Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin in minor roles as crewmen. Screenwriter Richard Murphy was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for "Best Written American Comedy".
[edit] Plot
Shortly after the entry of the United States into World War II, U.S. Navy Lieutenant John Harkness (Gary Cooper) is an inexperienced reservist who is hoping for sea duty. However with his civilian background in engineering he is called upon by Admiral Tennant (Ray Collins) to head a secret project: the Navy wants to power its convoy escorts and patrol craft with steam engines. Harkness is given command of a submarine chaser (a sort of miniature destroyer) that is soon derisively nicknamed the "U.S.S. Teakettle". To make his life even more complicated, his wife Ellie (Jane Greer) has entered the Navy and is an assistant to Harkness's commander, Captain Eliot (Harry Von Zell).
The novice captain soon discovers he has an equally novice crew. Only gruff and cynical Chief Larrabee (Millard Mitchell) has any experience at running a ship and in the best tradition of "90-day wonders" Harkness leans on him to hold his crew together.
[edit] Cast
- Gary Cooper - Lieut. John Harkness
- Jane Greer - Ellie Harkness
- Millard Mitchell - Chief George Larrabee
- Eddie Albert - Lieut. Bill Barron
- John McIntire - Commander Reynolds
- Ray Collins - RAdm Tennant
- Jack Webb - Ensign Anthony Barbo
- Richard Erdman - Ensign Chuck Dorrance
- Charles Bronson - Wascylewski
- Harry Von Zell - Captain Eliot
- Lee Marvin - uncredited role as a radioman
- Harvey Lembeck - Norelli
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