The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Summary:
Hijinks and spyjinks lighten this effective comedy by Richard Murphy, based -- very loosely -- on an actual incident in World War II. The place is somewhere in the Pacific and the not-so-good ship USS Echo, captained by the comic Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), has a very specific assignment. The floating anachronism has to safely carry an Australian spy deep into enemy territory w... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jack Lemmon - (Lt. Rip Crandall)
Ricky Nelson - (Ensign Tommy Manson)
John Lund - (Cmdr. Vandewater)
Chips Rafferty - (Patterson)
Tom Tully - (Capt. McClung)
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Review:
The Wackiest Ship In The Army comes from the same sub-genre of service comedies that yielded Henry Hathaway's You're In The Navy Now, Richard Quine's Operation Mad Ball, Blake Edwards' Operation Petticoat -- it isn't as good as any of those, despite the fact that director/screenwriter Richard Murphy had authored the screenpl... Continue >>
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