Comando del Pacífico

Título original: The Wackiest Ship in the Army

1960
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1h 39min

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Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Teniente Rip Crandall, que era navegante antes de la guerra, toma el mando del USS Echo.Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Teniente Rip Crandall, que era navegante antes de la guerra, toma el mando del USS Echo.Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Teniente Rip Crandall, que era navegante antes de la guerra, toma el mando del USS Echo.

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Curiosidades
The original name of the boat in the movie was the "Fiesta". She was built in Hong Kong in 1932 entirely of teakwood. She was a 72 foot gaff-rigged schooner and came with a 165hp auxiliary diesel engine, weighed 28 net tons, drew 8 feet of water and could make 7.5 knots under power. She was also equipped with 3 tiled heads (bathrooms), two of them with showers, 1400 gallon fresh water tank, a 19 cubic foot deep freezer, and a 24 cubic foot refrigerator. Prior to the movie the Fiesta was owned by Martin J. Vitousek and his wife the former Beatrice Leiseder. (Source: The San Francisco Chronicle Sept. 14, 1952).

Pifias
The aircraft that flies Lt. Crandall (Lemmon) from the carrier to his new assignment on the Echo appears to be an S-2 Tracker or its variant, the C-1 Trader. Both planes first saw service in the mid 1950s, several years after the time frame of the movie.

Citas
Lt. Rip Crandall: [the crew is abandoning ship] What, aren't you going to stay here and die for the "Rising Sun"?
Capt. Shigetsu: Are you out of your mind?
[Jumps overboard with the rest of the crew]

Créditos adicionales
Opening credits: THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY...................IN THE ARMY?

Conexiones
Features Misión temeraria (1954)

Banda sonora
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans
(uncredited)
Music by Louis Alter
Lyrics by Edgar De Lange
Performed by Ricky Nelson
[Hanson sings the song in the officers' club]

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10/10

Lemmon rules the waves

I've just watched this movie again (and taped it), and found it just as amusing as when I first watched it 40 odd years ago (just after it's release in fact). Jack Lemmon never fails to impress, but after all this time I now realise that Ricky Nelson (although a great loss to the music world) wasn't the greatest of actors. However his naivety in this department somehow added charm to this movie.

The WWII storyline based on true events couldn't be simpler. An American naval officer/ex-yachtsman Lt Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), and a young Ensign Tommy Hansen (Ricky Nelson), are ordered to sail an old sloop, the "USS Echo", with an unexperienced crew across the Great Barrier Reef to Port Moresby, where (although Crandall doesn't know until later) the boat is to be used to convey an Aussie coast-watcher to his destination, with a different crew. Crandall doesn't like the change-over so steals the mission. End of plot...almost.

The only real down side of this movie was the awful "Austroylian" accent of Irish actress Patricia Driscoll. Almost as bad as Dick van Dyke's Cockney accent in "Mary Poppins". Almost, but not quite. Although lovely to look at, it's a blessing Patricia only had a minor role. However I find it strange that the part couldn't have been given to a genuine Aussie.

All in all, I always found this movie very entertaining, and strangely enough, for a war film, and rather like "Mr Roberts", no violence worth worrying about. Which rather pleases me now, for my grandkids love it.