Comedy
All Hands on Deck
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: Norman Taurog
Screenplay: Jay Sommers
Source: Donald R. Morris (novel: Warm Bodies)
Cast: Pat Boone, Buddy Hackett, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Eden
100 minutes - 1961
Story of a Navy ship with a captain obsessed with catching a fish, a singing executive officer wanting to get married, and an Indian with a turkey as a pet.
April in Paris
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: David Butler
Screenplay: Jack Rose ; Melville Shavelson
Cast: Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin
100 minutes - 1952
Musical with Dance in a galley
Cabin Boy
Touchstone (USA)
Director: Adam Resnick
Screenplay: Adam Resnick ; Chris Elliot
Cast: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Russ Tamblyn
80 minutes - 1994
Snobby school boy goes left and mistakes the "Filthy Whore" for his millionaire dad's yacht. He joins four filthy fishermen for hijinx on the high seas
Down Periscope
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: David S. Ward
Screenplay: Hugh Wilson ; Andrew Kurtzman ; Eliot Wald
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton
92 minutes - 1996
Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days
Father Goose
Universal (USA)
Director: Ralph Nelson
Screenplay: Peter Stone ; Frank Tarloff
Source: S. H. Barmett (story)
Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
118 minutes - 1964
During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female
Follow the Fleet
RKO (USA)
Director: Mark Sandrich
Screenplay: Dwight Taylor ; Allan Scott
Source: Hubert Osborne (play)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott
110 minutes - 1936
Musical - A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on liberty in San Francisco
Hit the Deck
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
Director: Roy Rowland
Screenplay: Sonya Levien ; William Ludwig
Source: Herbert Fields (play)
Cast: Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds
112 minutes - 1955
Musical - a sailor, his pals and his sister on shore leave in San Francisco
In the Navy
Universal (USA)
Director: Arthur Lubin
Screenplay: Arthur T. Horman ; John Grant
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell, The Andrews Sisters
84 minutes - 1941
Famous radio-crooner is tired of it all and enlists in the Navy under his true name
Jack Ahoy
Gainsborough (UK)
Director: Walter Forde
Screenplay: Leslie Arliss ; Gerald Fairlie ; Sidney Gilliat ; Jack Hulbert ; Austin Melford
Source: J. O. C. Orton (story)
Cast: Jack Hulbert, Nancy O'Neil, Alfred Drayton
70 minutes - 1934
A song and dance comedy featuring an incompetent Submarine sailor
McHale's Navy
Universal (USA)
Director: Edward Montagne
Screenplay: Frank Gill. jr. ; George Carlton Brown
Source: Si Rose (story)
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn
93 minutes - 1964
The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners
McHale's Navy
Universal (US)
Director: Bryan Spicer
Screenplay: Peter Crabbe
Source: Peter Crabbe ; Andy Rose (story)
Cast: Tom Arnold, Dean Stockwell, Ernest Borgnine, Tim Curry
108 minutes - 1997
Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73. With help from his old crew, McHale tries to put the 2nd best terrorist in the world out of business
Mister Roberts
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: John Ford ; Mervyn LeRoy
Screenplay: Frank Nugent ; Joshua Logan
Source: Thomas Heggem ; Joshua Logan (play)
Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon
123 minutes - 1955
In the waning days of WWII, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean
Mister Roberts
NBC (USA)
Director: Melvin Bernhardt
Screenplay: Joshua Logan
Source: Thomas Heggem ; Joshua Logan (play)
Cast: Robert Hays, Kevin Bacon, Charles Durning
100 minutes - 1984
Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts, who battles boredom and a tyrannical captain to the admiration of Ensign Pulver, Doc, and the crew. Made for TV
Ensign Pulver
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: Joshua Logan
Screenplay: Joshua Logan
Source: Thomas Heggem ; Joshua Logan (play)
Other Titles: Mr. Pulver and the Captain
Cast: Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau
104 minutes - 1964
Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences
Onionhead
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: Norman Taurog
Screenplay: Nelson Gidding
Source: Weldon Hill (novel)
Cast: Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Joe Mantell
111 minutes - 1958
In 1941, an Oklahoma college graduate joins the US Coast Guard and serves as a cook on a ship based in Boston
Operation Peticoat
Universal (USA)
Director: Blake Edwards
Screenplay: Stanley Shapiro ; Maurice Richlin
Source: Paul King ; Joseph Stone (story)
Cast: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien
124 minutes - 1959
During WWII, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses
Out to Sea
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: Martha Coolidge
Screenplay: Robert Nelson Jacobs
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon
106 minutes - 1997
A failed gambler, intent on meeting a rich widow, tricks his widowed brother-in-law into boarding a cruise ship as dance hosts
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Columbia (USA)
Director: Richard Murphy
Screenplay: Richard Murphy
Source: Herbert Carlson (story)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson
99 minutes - 1960
During WW2, Lt. Rip Crandall, who was a yachtsman before the war, takes command of the USS Echo, a sailing ship, for a secret mission in waters patrolled by Japanese warships