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You're in the Navy Now 1951

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 93 min

genre: comedy

director: Henry Hathaway

Score: 4 / 10

You're in the Navy Now is a 1951 American war-comedy film about the United States Navy in the first months of World War II. The film was directed by Henry Hathaway and stars Gary Cooper as a new officer wanting duty at sea but who is instead assigned to an experimental project without much hope of success. It was released by 20th Century Fox and its initial release was titled U.S.S. Teakettle. When the film failed to gain an audience, it was re-titled to the present title.

Plot

At Norfolk Naval Base in the opening months of World War II, Lieutenant John W. Harkness, a newly commissioned officer, bids goodbye to wife Ellie and reports aboard the PC-1168 unaware that his civilian background in engineering and his Rutgers education has elected him, by means of a hole punched in an IBM card, to head a secret project and command the ship. The Navy has installed a steam engine and an experimental evaporator-condenser in the ship to test its feasibility in patrol craft and has assigned Harkness to conduct the sea trials.

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author	Richard Murphy
director	Henry Hathaway Lewis Seiler
editor	James B. Clark
events	World War II
genre	comedy
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musicBy	Cyril J. Mockridge
producer	Fred Kohlmar
publisher	20th Century Fox