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Vendredi, juin 25th, 2010
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Watching this again many years after I first saw it, I expected to be disappointed. After all, the enormous films of our youth sometimes turn out to be something less than we had imagined. But Mister Roberts does not disappoint. This is one of the gems of the American cinema, a poignant comedy featuring a multitudinously clever and delicious script by Frank Nugent and Joshua Logan from a original by Thomas Heggen made into a play by Logan and Heggen that ran for many years on Broadway. The movie features worthy performances from Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon. Fonda is particularly colorful in the kind of role from which legends are made. (He also played the portion on Broadway.) You can capture all your John Wayne classics and toss them overboard with the Captain’s palm tree. Henry Fonda as Lt (j.g.) Doug Roberts, cargo officer of the USS Reluctant, shines forth as the noblest hero of them all. He is a collected, strong, handsome, daring man in a narrative positive to mist up your eyes even if you’re watching it for the twentieth time.
Jack Lemmon won a supporting Oscar for his performance as Ensign Pulver, a kind of idle, but slyly resourceful Walter Mitty type who talks a immense game but never follows through… James Cagney is the Captain, a sour, resentful man who mercilessly badgers Mister Roberts and grossly neglects the morale of his crew. He is fair perfect. The map he bellows “Mister Roberts!” or contrivance he trembles out the line, “Mister…Mister…this time you’ve gone too far” delights the audience. William Powell, in his last film, plays the ship’s wise and ever diplomatic doc with exquisite precision.
Marty (1955) starring Ernest Borgnine, a kind of politically apt (for its time) adore legend about ordinary folk, won the Academy’s honor for best portray in 1956, the year Mister Roberts was nominated. Henry Fonda, in perhaps his most beloved and certainly one of his finest performances, was not even nominated. Incidentally, Hollywood record John Ford directed, but fell ill and Mervyn LeRoy–no perambulate himself (e.g., The Poor Seed, 1956; No Time for Sergeants, 1958, etc.) –finished up.
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There are a number of memorable scenes in the film, the kind recalled with delight. My common involves the crew, their binoculars and the nurses. I also loved the careful concocting of the “scotch whiskey” by Doc. The weekly letters requesting a transfer, the Hoot Gibson films we (thankfully) never look, the ever worshipful palm tree, Pulver’s marbles in a tobacco tin that he shakes in Roberts’s face, vowing to display his manhood by putting them in the captain’s overbin, his “firecracker,” his “If I could be with you/One hour tonight/To do the things I might/I’m telling you true/I’d be anything but blue,” the giddy nurses, and the rank liberty are other unforgettable bits. But more than anything, what makes this a gargantuan movie, are the indelible characters so very moral to our experience, and how nicely they meld and dissimilarity.
This is, along with From Here to Eternity, Das Boot, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Caine Mutiny, Stalag 17, and Twelve O’Clock High, among my accepted movies to advance out of World War II. What sets Mister Roberts apart is the humor born of the boredom, frustration, and tedium that most truly characterizes life in the service. In this regard I prefer a saying that goes something like this: “War is filled with long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of absolute dread.” The crew of the Reluctant got only the boredom.
This expedient war comedy/movie will always be one of my personal favorites. Based on the WWII guideline, the basic premise is a rather anal boat captain trying to earn “ship shape” a merchant/transport type ship. (in the Pacific) .
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From an unique play of Broadway, starring Hendy Fonda to the tremendous mask. (My parents saw this Play on Broadway on their honeymoon and I unexcited have the Playbill) So naturally I am biased.
Start with an assembled cast second to none.
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Henry Fonda (Wry humor..this movie IS him.)
William Powell (The thin man returns…his sarcasm is perfect here)
James Cagney (Does his talent ever destroy? One of his best roles)
Lemmon (Ensign Pulver), shows his talent for the residence gag and, lets say, driftiness, early. This perfomance spawned a few sequels on Pulver alone.
If you were ever in the Navy, you will inspect Cagney’s Performance as uncanny, and notice a microscopic bit of each actor in your hold experience.
This is meant to be seen in its entirety. Its not sever to pieces for TV, and when seen in this format is like a original movie, meant to be seen from begin to attain.
Highly recommended, and will be seen again and again
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