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DVD Mister Roberts
Henry Fonda re-created his Broadway hit for this 1955 film that was mostly directed by Fonda's frequent collaborator, John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine)--an ailing Ford was replaced at some point by Mervyn LeRoy--and the results are exceptionally fine. A perfect cast, including James Cagney's irascible captain, William Powell's thoughtful physician, and Jack Lemmon's Oscar-winning Ensign Pulver, give Fonda the right boost to portray his ennui-burdened officer with dignity, self-effacing humor, and not a trace of self-pity. A wonderful film. --Tom Keogh
I was fortunate to have seen the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed to Henry Fonda for his career full of memorable films given to him in the late 70's. In that particular ceremony, Mister Roberts was featured prominently and rightfully so as it was one of his most memorable roles. At the end of the show, getting inspiration to one of the classic scenes of the movie, those who attended and paid tribute to Mister Fonda that ranges from Bette Davis to Barbra Stanwyck, to Jimmy Stewart and to Ensign Pulver himself Jack Lemmon, one by one stood up and did the "Goodnight, Mister Roberts" from the movie but it was adapted in the ceremony by changing it to "Goodnight, Mister Fonda". That was one beautiful moment.
Mister Roberts (Fonda) was the cargo officer of a battle ship that does not happen to participate in actual battles. He is considered a hero by the crew and one of the reasons was that he was the only one who can fight back the cruel captain played by James Cagney. Mister Robert's kindness and camaraderie to the crew was exploited by the captain to control Mister Robert's subordination at the expense of Mister Robert's goal to be transferred in the battlefield. But of course the crew made sure that won't happen.
Henry Fonda was perfect. I can't think of anyone who could play the title character with the dignity and quiet heroism that he showed in the movie. Jack Lemmon stole some scenes and I was truly delighted to see his unique comic timing that became so distinctively associated with him. James Cagney, played the captain with such "barking" intensity you'll hate his guts.
This is one of my all time favorite movies and I highly recommend it.
Grade: A
A classic clean movie
This movie is a classic. It's an enjoyable show without the foul language and sexual agendas like today's movies. It's just good clean fun to watch. The actors have true talent in entertainment. I love Jack Lemmon in this one. He's his usual comedic self. When you feel like watching a good old movie with a simple plot without the expletives and other dirt that comes with many of the modern shows, you'll love this one. I wanted to get the sequel "Ensign Pulver" also, but I'll wait until it comes out on DVD.
"Thanks for the Liberty Mr. Roberts.. Thanks for everything"...
A wonderfully enduring film and play about a Navy supply ship and the men on board fighting the real battle of war...boredom and monotony. Henry Fonda is Mr. -(delivering more toothpaste and toilet paper than any other Navy cargo ship in the safe area of the Pacific)- Roberts, William Powell as -(two aspirin, marked for duty)- Doc, James Cagney as Ship's -(the worst thing I can do to you is keep you right here, Mister!)- Captain and Jack Lemmon as Ensign -(I'm searching for marbles all day long!)- Pulver. The stage play ran for many years and is still being played in schools and playhouses around the country. This is just a great classic film well worth adding to any library. The battle royal between the Captain and Mr. Roberts over shore leave, makes this a memorable movie experience. Great cast and great acting.
Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II. Stripped of his authority by two officers under his command (played by Van Johnson and Robert Francis) during a devastating storm, Queeg becomes a crucial witness at a court martial that reveals as much about the invisible injuries of war as anything. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Raintree County) directs the action scenes with a sure hand and nudges his all-male cast toward some of the most well-defined characters of 1950s cinema. The courtroom scenes alone have become the basis for a stage play (and a television movie in 1988), but it is a more satisfying experience to see the entire story in context.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart - José Ferrer - Van Johnson - Fred MacMurray Director(s): Edward Dmytryk DVD Release Date: Released the 15 December 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Blake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant as a World War II submarine captain whose preference for a by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But when Curtis sneaks a handful of Philippine refugees and several gorgeous nurses onto the all-male sub, the skipper not only has to cool down his crew but deal with an unexpected feminine influence on ship protocol. The film is a great deal of fun, sprinkled with the director's trademark sight gags (including one of Edwards's best, involving a torpedo and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Cary Grant - Tony Curtis Director(s): Blake Edwards DVD Release Date: Released the 18 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Black comedy and suspenseful action inside a German POW camp during World War II--a setting that was later borrowed for the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The great director Billy Wilder adapted the hit stage play, applying his own wicked sense of humor to the apparently bleak subject matter. William Holden plays an antisocial grouse amid a gang of wisecracking though indomitable American prisoners. Because of his bitter cynicism, Holden is suspected by the others of being an informer to the Germans, an accusation he must deal with in his own crafty way. Holden, who had delivered a brilliant performance for Wilder in Sunset Boulevard, won the 1953 Best Actor Oscar for Stalag 17. Very much his equal, however, is Otto Preminger, an accomplished director himself, who plays... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): William Holden - Don Taylor Director(s): Billy Wilder DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Cary Grant's penultimate feature before retirement was this cheerful 1964 effort to overturn his career-long image of urbane sophistication. As the unshaven, messy misanthrope Walter Eckland, a World War II-era beach bum who monitors Japanese air activity for the Australian navy in exchange for booze, Grant makes a convincingly hard-bitten, hard-drinking antihero. Until, that is, a pretty French schoolmistress (Leslie Caron) and her seven little charges (all girls) survive a nearby plane crash and invade Eckland's raunchy isolation. Directed by 1960s hit-maker Ralph Nelson (The Lilies of the Field, Charly), Father Goose is a glossy comedy that also does justice to its more suspenseful scenes (a deadly snakebite suffered by Caron's character is especially... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Ralph Nelson DVD Release Date: Released the 18 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In The Enemy Below Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens are respectively captains of a U.S. destroyer and a German U-boat whose vessels come into conflict in the South Atlantic. Both are good men with a job to do, the script noting Jurgens' distaste for Hitler and the Nazis and engaging our sympathy with the German sailors almost as much as the Americans. Made at the height of the cold war of the 1950s, the film delivers a liberal message of co-operation wrapped inside some spectacular action scenes and a story which builds to a tense and exciting, moving finale. --Gary S. DalkinMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert Mitchum - Curd Jürgens Director(s): Dick Powell DVD Release Date: Released the 25 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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