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You're in the Navy Now

1951 · 93 min

A genial, old-fashioned service comedy where amateur sailors bumble through trials and mishaps with good-natured charm rather than real danger.

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NEW Hilarious Adventures of the "U.S.S. Teakettle"
Overview
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • friendship
  • loyalty
  • coming-of-age
  • survival
Places
  • military
  • sea
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy, war
Directed by
Henry Hathaway
Written by
John W. Hazard, Richard Murphy
Starring
Gary Cooper, Jane Greer, Millard Mitchell, Eddie Albert, John McIntire, Ray Collins, Harry von Zell, Jack Webb
Music
Cyril J. Mockridge
Cinematography
Joseph MacDonald
Runtime
93 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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