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Watching this again many years after I first saw it, I expected to be disappointed. After all, the colossal 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 savory script by Frank Nugent and Joshua Logan from a current by Thomas Heggen made into a play by Logan and Heggen that ran for many years on Broadway. The movie features reliable performances from Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon. Fonda is particularly gleaming in the kind of role from which legends are made. (He also played the piece on Broadway.) You can remove 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 smooth, strong, glowing, dauntless man in a legend clear 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 slothful, but slyly resourceful Walter Mitty type who talks a mountainous 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 method he bellows “Mister Roberts!” or draw 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 pretty precision.
Marty (1955) starring Ernest Borgnine, a kind of politically moral (for its time) like yarn about ordinary folk, won the Academy’s honor for best describe 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 account John Ford directed, but fell ill and Mervyn LeRoy–no journey himself (e.g., The Unpleasant 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 observe, the ever worshipful palm tree, Pulver’s marbles in a tobacco tin that he shakes in Roberts’s face, vowing to demonstrate 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 faulty liberty are other unforgettable bits. But more than anything, what makes this a expansive movie, are the indelible characters so very fair to our experience, and how nicely they meld and disagreement.
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 common movies to near 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 occupy a saying that goes something like this: “War is filled with long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of absolute fear.” The crew of the Reluctant got only the boredom.
This estimable 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 gain “ship shape” a merchant/transport type ship. (in the Pacific) .
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From an current play of Broadway, starring Hendy Fonda to the tremendous shroud. (My parents saw this Play on Broadway on their honeymoon and I calm 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 waste? One of his best roles)
Lemmon (Ensign Pulver), shows his talent for the dwelling gag and, lets say, driftiness, early. This perfomance spawned a few sequels on Pulver alone.
If you were ever in the Navy, you will observe Cagney’s Performance as uncanny, and discover a dinky bit of each actor in your hold experience.
This is meant to be seen in its entirety. Its not reduce to pieces for TV, and when seen in this format is like a recent movie, meant to be seen from initiate to attain.
Highly recommended, and will be seen again and again
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