I think they always did respect him, but Mr. Robert's briefly lost that respect until the crew found out the price Mr. Roberts had to bat for pay for going to bat for them.
William Powell looked like he was enjoying this role immensely. He was fabulous in all the Thin Man movies and I would have *loved* to see his character of Doc playing opposite Myrna Loy as a smart, tough veteran Navy nurse! Glorious pair!
As an active duty Naval Officer, I can say this is one of the most important movie scenes for any officer to see. Loyalty from sailors to their officer is important, but the loyalty and duty of an officer for their sailors is far more important. We don't always succeed, but if your sailors know they can trust you, you're doing your job right.
@@castlearghhh6023I wish it was taught in the Navy, sir. I was taught this by my dad, a Warrant Officer. Some people share this sentiment. Some don't. God bless you.
From an NCO to a young officer. Once you earn their respect of your crew, don’t put yourself into a position to lose it. If we know you have our back we will have yours.
James Cagney CAN play almost any role. Shakespeare, dancer, gangster, navy, air force pilot, soldier, spy agent, police, government agent, cowboy, comedian, sportsman,. The best Classic Hollywood actor!
Bad guy, good guy, dancer, comedian, military, western, crime there's not a genre he didn't excel in. I don't remember him doing any science fiction but he would have made a great emperor palpiton or obi wan.
I just bought this on DVD. Watched it about 10X when I was a kid - but still joined the military. I am not going to watch too many of these scenes for fear of ruining it. Can't wait to set aside some time and watch the whole thing again. Great film.
saw this movie as a young man had no idea what movie was about as I kept watching I could not stop watching one of my all time favorites acting was off the charts
@@intercommerce Ward Bond. A Chief Petty Officer in this movie I believe. He was probably more famous for some of his Westerns, IIRC, especially with John Wayne. I think he also starred on the TV show Wagon Train.
So was my dad. Merchant sailor Atlantic, lost ship to U-Boat in 43, on raft for 3 days til destroyer saved he and 3 others. Told many stories of attacks, sinkings.
A great Broadway play turned into a superb movie! The studio wanted to cast William Holden or Marlon Brando in the role of Roberts because Fonda had been absent from films for years. John Ford got him the role. Jack Lemmon's third movie performance garnered him an Oscar. William Powell, who had a long illustrious career, gave a bravura turn as Doc in his last film. Cagney was hilarious as the Captain!
Mister Roberts was a Broadway hit for almost three years (1948-1951) with Fonda playing the same character. Everyone knew the movie would be a hit...deservedly so.
This is one of the best movies ever. Mr Roberts, Lt JG Seems to be the Cargo and Exec of this ship. He does everything for the crew at expense to himself. Allot of officers did this in real life.
A great movie. The scene is touching because the captain had turned the crew against Mr. Roberts, they had been cold and hostile to him. Here they find out what really happened, what he did for them, and how he was forced to accept the part of being the villain and couldn't reveal the truth.
Too bad the scene did not start at the first with Cagney on the ship’s intercom screaming, “Sound the general alarm! Sound the general alarm!,” followed by the Klaxon, then the famous, “Whooo did it! Whooo did it!” I have turned that one into my phone ring assigned to when my wife calls me.
"Goodnight Dolan" ..... Best line of the best movie, ever..... Except for that other line; "So long harmless"....... John Ford is the greatest director ever!
I read the book when I was in 5th grade, quite a salacious tome in some parts for a 5th grader, but it and this movie has always been one of my all time faves. Too bad some Ensign Pulver wasn't in this clip as well. I was quite sad that author Thomas Heggen died in 1949 from an apparent suicide , only 3 years after writing this wonderful story.
On May 19, 1949, Heggen was found drowned in the bathtub of his Manhattan apartment. The coroner ruled his death a "probable suicide", though he left no note and those who knew him were adamant that it was a tragic accident.
William Powell has always been one of my favorite actors...Cagney and company are all excellent...what we lack nowadays isn't so much the actors or directors as the script writers...though in fairness to them, they aren't given much choice....
Thanks Uncle Al, Seaman USCG pre-war, CRM WWII (LST 885), CW4 USANG, for letting me lay on my tummy on your living room rug under the cigarette smoke strata in the 1970s and watch this gem of a movie. I still think one of the best lines in all of moviedom is when Roberts tells the stretcher-bearers "we won't be needing that...Sorry"
James Cagney was the perfect example of a "Toxic Leader". What's sad is the fact that there are a lot of these guys in the actual military. I had one of these guys as a commanding officer in Afghanistan. Our whole unit was dysfunctional because he was such a toxic leader.
Mr Roberts, PT 109, and Operation Petticoat are my favorite wartime movies. They don't make movies like that anymore, and we're losing so many great actors and actresses, only to have them replaced by low talent eye candy that can draw an audience.
Nice old classics list and Mr Roberts also is top of my all time list. Interesting choices and I noticed all American productions, did the Brits do one that you liked?
I will never forget those memorable lines. ‘ All right, who did it? Who did it? You will be sweating at those battle stations, until someone confesses!’
I don't know if it was just the acting style, or an emulation of the times, but man...some of these old films- it's like a ship full of rubes that flunked kindergarten.
The Hayes Office, which controlled Hollywood film content in those days, would have censored the word, "shitcan." That's probably why "waste basket" was used. Lol.
Reminds me of Capt. Crozier, of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who blew the whistle about his crew getting sick of COVID, and his superiors just gave him lip service and blew him off.
@@halfcantan1208 the movie is called "Mr. Roberts" with Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon. I was referring to how Mr. Roberts finally gets what he wanted...his transfer to the front lines...then is immediately killed in action. With the MASH TV series, Col. Henry Blake finally gets what he wants...his orders to go home...and then is immediately killed while flying home.
@@lusmas99 With MASH they killed Henry off because he was going to hold out for more money the following season and it angered the producers so much that they decided to write his character out of the story in a way that he couldn't come back from. By killing Henry off screen like that they got the point across to the rest of the cast. No one ever drew a line in the sand over money on that show again.
@@From-North-Jersey little shaky on the timeline, but I do have to say, that it wasn't just the money that led to McLean Stevenson leaving. Alan Alda was pretty much taking over the show. Went from an ensemble to everyone just laying down for Hawkeye.
@Hal McAdams Signore, I don't get that. When did he blame the crew for a screwup? And suppose he did! I saw the movie several times and I read the play, and I can't find anything to inspire this level of enmity. Captains are supposed to be tough disciplinarians. This one seems much more balanced than, say, Captain Queeg. Really, the snarky, sarcastic hatred shown by the crew is disproportionate to what the captain is actually seen to be doing.
You gotta hand it to Hollywood when it comes to Navy movies… The Caine Mutiny Mr Roberts The Bridges of Toko Ri Tora Tora Tora In Harms Way Midway Off and a Gentleman Topgun The Hunt for Red October A few good men I know I’m missing a few. This one though is at the top. As a retired Navy guy who wore both uniforms, enlisted and Commissioned who is also the son of a WWII Navy vet as well… Thank you for the timeless stories of our particular service.
One terrible irony of this movie, Mr Roberts finally gets a transfer off the ship to another one, and dies in a Kamikaze attack on his new ship. So as in real life, sometimes you step out of a frying pan and into a fire.
Were Fonda and a couple of other actors here really WWII Navy officers? The dialogue is all wrong. It's "medical officer" or "MO", not "doctor" -- that's civilian talk. Likewise "bunk" or "berth" -- not "couch". There are other cases in which they don't refer to military (24-hr.) clock times, but civilian times, etc.
Being historically accurate sometimes takes second place in movies. A lay person understands doctor is a medical doctor, they might not understand a medical officer is a doctor who has gone to ODS and become a naval officer.
@@TricksterDa Fonda went to Navy boot camp in San Diego during WWII. My Dad, who lived in San Diego, met him in San Diego and attended Fonda's graduation party in San Diego and his follow up party in Hollywood. Fonda wanted to be an enlisted man, not an officer, though he could have had a commission. He wanted to be one of the men and just a regular guy. .
The hardest job, for many Officers, is just gaining the RESPECT of those you command! BUT, once you've got that, they would follow you to the gates of Hell ! And later, tell the tale to their Grandchildren!
A man that laughs at another man's faults has many more faults than the man they laugh at. Good example of man's disgusting urgency to criticize when they don't know truth. A sad epitaph.
Mister Roberts was something of a hypocrite when you think about it. Earlier in the movie he openly berated ensign Pulver saying: "Frank - the day you actually put those marbles in the captains overhead & then have the guts to knock on his door and say - 'captain, I put those marbles in your overhead, that's the day I'll look up to you as being a man". And yet Roberts hasn't got the guts to confess - face to face - that it was he who threw the palm tree overboard. Still, this is one of my all time favourite movies.
so how is Mr Roberts as a study in leadership? i think he may be too soft a little and maybe too close to the crew, HOWEVER this could be because it has degenerated to us vs the tyrant Captain.
I was active duty in the Navy for six years and don't regret one second of it. Yeah, there were those occasional "unique" individuals in command positions that you scratched your head about and wondered what fool promoted them. But obviously in this movie and others, like South Pacific for example, military life is embellished and exaggerated for entertainment value. The inane things eventually became fond memories. The Chief to a seaman: "What are you doing sailor?" Reply: "Milling around smartly." Comeback: "Carry on."
The crew had so much respect for Mr Roberts after they found out what really happened. One of the best performances by all. Best move ever!
I think they always did respect him, but Mr. Robert's briefly lost that respect until the crew found out the price Mr. Roberts had to bat for pay for going to bat for them.
William Powell looked like he was enjoying this role immensely. He was fabulous in all the Thin Man movies and I would have *loved* to see his character of Doc playing opposite Myrna Loy as a smart, tough veteran Navy nurse! Glorious pair!
As an active duty Naval Officer, I can say this is one of the most important movie scenes for any officer to see. Loyalty from sailors to their officer is important, but the loyalty and duty of an officer for their sailors is far more important. We don't always succeed, but if your sailors know they can trust you, you're doing your job right.
Thank you for your service, Sir
So this movie still rings true in the US Navy. Excellent. Apparently the US Navy is still the US Navy .
@@castlearghhh6023I wish it was taught in the Navy, sir. I was taught this by my dad, a Warrant Officer. Some people share this sentiment. Some don't. God bless you.
From an NCO to a young officer. Once you earn their respect of your crew, don’t put yourself into a position to lose it. If we know you have our back we will have yours.
It should be required watching at the academy and officer candidate schools.
William Powell was so pleased with his work in this film, that he retired saying he could never be in as good a film again.
He was a great actor
He was already retired and Cagney asked him.
"Goodnight Mr. Roberts." This has alway been the key scene in the movie for me. This was the genius of John Ford.
What a performance by Cagney. And, a big laugh watching Powell take his dear sweet time.
Bless you, Archer, I didn't recognize Powell, and it's been too many years since I saw the film to remember who played the Doc. What a cast!
It was a fantastic gem of a movie and very under appreciated.
This was William Powell's last performance onscreen. He retired from acting right after this.
@@TricksterDa and it was fonda's return to acting after an 8 year hiatus
"We mustn't let ourselves get ANGRY, Captain."
James Cagney CAN play almost any role. Shakespeare, dancer, gangster, navy, air force pilot, soldier, spy agent, police, government agent, cowboy, comedian, sportsman,. The best Classic Hollywood actor!
Bad guy, good guy, dancer, comedian, military, western, crime there's not a genre he didn't excel in. I don't remember him doing any science fiction but he would have made a great emperor palpiton or obi wan.
,you're absolutely right because he played every one of those parts at one time or another across his career.
You are so right.
And he was splendid as the songwriter and entertainer George M. Cohan in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Magnificent performance
And willing to step up and be the perfect no-good selfish jerk of a commanding officer here.
This movie was always a family favorite. For years if I was laying low at work I called it my Ensign Pulver act.
Loved Cagney's reaction after their first conversation, "FOURTEEN MONTHS?!"
I just bought this on DVD. Watched it about 10X when I was a kid - but still joined the military. I am not going to watch too many of these scenes for fear of ruining it. Can't wait to set aside some time and watch the whole thing again. Great film.
Has been and always will be a favorite to watch. One of the best TRULY great movies of all time.
Good night Mr. Roberts...
saw this movie as a young man had no idea what movie was about as I kept watching I could not stop watching one of my all time favorites acting was off the charts
"Will the Doctor report to the Captain's cabin on the double."
(Doctor walking slower than a medicated tree sloth.)
Smoking a cigarette.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Medicated three sloth that is absolutely positively the funniest thing I've heard all day
How about the relaxed casual way Mr. Roberts called Doc to the Captain's quarters.
Love how at the end the doctor tells the stretcher bearers, "you won't be needed -- sorry" --- like he is for SURE sorry they won't be needed..
@@robertthomas5196I know that’s hilarious..taking a drag rolling up his sleeve..and not exactly moving at “on the double “ speed 😂😂
One of my favorite movies. Awesome cast, great screenplay and well directed.
Cagney,Fonda and Bond,it doesn't get any better than this.🗽🗽🗽👍👍👍
Or William Powell, Martin Milner or Ken Curtis.
Where's Bond?
@@intercommerce, he was the older guy with the mustache and cigar who removed his helmet in the scene outside the window.
@@intercommerce Ward Bond. A Chief Petty Officer in this movie I believe. He was probably more famous for some of his Westerns, IIRC, especially with John Wayne. I think he also starred on the TV show Wagon Train.
Don’t forget Lemmon! 💖
My dad was a WWII vet....this was one of his favorite movies. I can't watch this without become a bit sad to have lost him
My father too loved this movie.. WWII served on a Destroyer Escort DE-36..
I bet he was a badass and has hella stories in his day!!!!! Praise be and Thank You to his service always!
@@johnbattista9519 I bet he was a badass and has hella stories in his day!!!!! Praise be and Thank You to his service always!
So was my dad. Merchant sailor Atlantic, lost ship to U-Boat in 43, on raft for 3 days til destroyer saved he and 3 others. Told many stories of attacks, sinkings.
Was one of my dad's favorite movies also. Dad was in the Navy in WWII and we watched this film together many times.
A great Broadway play turned into a superb movie! The studio wanted to cast William Holden or Marlon Brando in the role of Roberts because Fonda had been absent from films for years. John Ford got him the role. Jack Lemmon's third movie performance garnered him an Oscar. William Powell, who had a long illustrious career, gave a bravura turn as Doc in his last film. Cagney was hilarious as the Captain!
One of my favorite, and most underappreciated movies, of all time.
Mister Roberts was a Broadway hit for almost three years (1948-1951) with Fonda playing the same character. Everyone knew the movie would be a hit...deservedly so.
you can t beat these old films, what a great time it was during hollywood when they were around
What a powerful cast - Fonda, Cagney, Powell & a new kid who shows promise Lemmon.
This is one of the best movies ever. Mr Roberts, Lt JG Seems to be the Cargo and Exec of this ship. He does everything for the crew at expense to himself. Allot of officers did this in real life.
Not terribly long ago, I had a Mister Roberts type for a supervisor. Such team leaders as this are a rare prize!
This might be the best war film ever. I think this is too damn accurate.
That’s just what Roberts talks about in that letter he sends the crew: the boredom.
I still have the VHS of this classic. One of my all time favorites.
A great movie. The scene is touching because the captain had turned the crew against Mr. Roberts, they had been cold and hostile to him. Here they find out what really happened, what he did for them, and how he was forced to accept the part of being the villain and couldn't reveal the truth.
And they "rewarded" Roberts by sending him to his death.
The fun thing is the guy who played Dolan? He played Festus, in Gunsmoke. Then, of course, there was Ward Bond and Jack Lemmon.
@@Ruby150 Ken Curtis, one of the Ward Bond Players troupe, who played most of the crew. Bond himself was CPO Dowdy.
@@Ruby150 Ward Bond of course was Bert in "It's a Wonderful Life".
@@smwca123 Ken Curtis was a regular in John Ford movies, along with John Wayne and Ward Bond.
They don't make em like this anymore. The film had a story, with great actors.
The docs sense of urgency is hilarious.😅😅😅
And the comic trombone in the background just makes me laugh harder
Thanks for uploading the deleted scenes. I adore this film.
Too bad the scene did not start at the first with Cagney on the ship’s intercom screaming, “Sound the general alarm! Sound the general alarm!,” followed by the Klaxon, then the famous, “Whooo did it! Whooo did it!”
I have turned that one into my phone ring assigned to when my wife calls me.
Ollie Bear hahaha, I love it!
Henri Fonda, james Cagner, que saldade
That was a wonderful film...
When Dolan got out of the Navy he got a new career as festus Hagen on Gunsmoke!!!
Best war movie ever and my personal favorite have in my DVD collection. outstanding performances from all the cast.
What a great cast, loved the movie!
My favorite scene from the whole movie!!I loved it!!
I love when the doctor comes out and tells the sailors with the stokes litter "we won't be needing that... sorry"
Cagney is always a pro.
"Goodnight Dolan" ..... Best line of the best movie, ever..... Except for that other line; "So long harmless"....... John Ford is the greatest director ever!
I read the book when I was in 5th grade, quite a salacious tome in some parts for a 5th grader, but it and this movie has always been one of my all time faves. Too bad some Ensign Pulver wasn't in this clip as well. I was quite sad that author Thomas Heggen died in 1949 from an apparent suicide , only 3 years after writing this wonderful story.
On May 19, 1949, Heggen was found drowned in the bathtub of his Manhattan apartment. The coroner ruled his death a "probable suicide", though he left no note and those who knew him were adamant that it was a tragic accident.
Oh yeah, there was girl with the birthmark on her **s!
how heart warming at the end of the clip.... still gets to me...
I like how the doctor takes his time getting to the cabin
That movie is such a classic, loved it.
William Powell has always been one of my favorite actors...Cagney and company are all excellent...what we lack nowadays isn't so much the actors or directors as the script writers...though in fairness to them, they aren't given much choice....
I always loved the end of this movie when Pulver grows a spine and tells the captain off.
i love the "on the double'!
When I was on a destroyer in Japan we had a tyrant CO for awhile.
Thank you for your Service, Sir...
So did you slip marbles in the captains overhead?
Anyone whose ever had one, sure never forgets them.
So did I. And a guy I was in with said he’d had worse. Hard to believe.
@@hydjrasierra1557 My father's first CO was taken off the ship wearing a straight jacket
Thanks Uncle Al, Seaman USCG pre-war, CRM WWII (LST 885), CW4 USANG, for letting me lay on my tummy on your living room rug under the cigarette smoke strata in the 1970s and watch this gem of a movie. I still think one of the best lines in all of moviedom is when Roberts tells the stretcher-bearers "we won't be needing that...Sorry"
My dad loved this movie this was his fave scene
James cagney rules in this movie
One of the best movies, ever.
Never gets old
That fond moment when a captain forgets to turn off the microphone in his cabin...
One of the greatest movies of all time. Be careful what you wish for….
One of the best movies ever
Doc taking his time, smoking a cigarette!🤣
James Cagney was the perfect example of a "Toxic Leader". What's sad is the fact that there are a lot of these guys in the actual military. I had one of these guys as a commanding officer in Afghanistan. Our whole unit was dysfunctional because he was such a toxic leader.
Goodnight, Mr. Roberts!
I Still Love the US Navy! 🇺🇸
Morton was a panicky petty tyrant, but was kind of comical!!
Mr Roberts, PT 109, and Operation Petticoat are my favorite wartime movies. They don't make movies like that anymore, and we're losing so many great actors and actresses, only to have them replaced by low talent eye candy that can draw an audience.
Nice old classics list and Mr Roberts also is top of my all time list. Interesting choices and I noticed all American productions, did the Brits do one that you liked?
@@KiwiKaosAgent , One of Our Aircraft is Missing and Sink the Bismarck are two that immediately come to mind.
My favorite film, it is #1 on my top ten!
This is a classic scene.
I will never forget those memorable lines. ‘ All right, who did it? Who did it? You will be sweating at those battle stations, until someone confesses!’
Jimmy looked like he was about to cry.😊😊
I hope they never remake this classic. It's perfect "AS-IS" Too many remakes been poorly done already.
I don't know if it was just the acting style, or an emulation of the times, but man...some of these old films- it's like a ship full of rubes that flunked kindergarten.
Heartwarming movie love it
@1:37 There are no "waste baskets" on U.S. Navy ships, there are shitcans.
Where’s the bathroom sir? Hehehe
The Hayes Office, which controlled Hollywood film content in those days, would have censored the word, "shitcan." That's probably why "waste basket" was used. Lol.
I guess on that ship "on the double" means stroll very slowly. Lol
Forgot to mention Ken Curtis was in The Quiet Man and also the tv series Whirlibirds.
And the Monsignor in "The Last Hurrah."
Reminds me of Capt. Crozier, of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who blew the whistle about his crew getting sick of COVID, and his superiors just gave him lip service and blew him off.
The difference is that Capt. Crozier's crew wasn't fooled for a minute.
The Admiral's Club isn't the American Airlines Biz Class Lounge :) Hint Hint
I always thought the MASH producers lifted what they did to Henry Blake from Mr. Roberts.
lusmas99 what movie is this from
@@halfcantan1208 the movie is called "Mr. Roberts" with Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon. I was referring to how Mr. Roberts finally gets what he wanted...his transfer to the front lines...then is immediately killed in action. With the MASH TV series, Col. Henry Blake finally gets what he wants...his orders to go home...and then is immediately killed while flying home.
@@lusmas99 With MASH they killed Henry off because he was going to hold out for more money the following season and it angered the producers so much that they decided to write his character out of the story in a way that he couldn't come back from. By killing Henry off screen like that they got the point across to the rest of the cast. No one ever drew a line in the sand over money on that show again.
@@From-North-Jersey little shaky on the timeline, but I do have to say, that it wasn't just the money that led to McLean Stevenson leaving. Alan Alda was pretty much taking over the show. Went from an ensemble to everyone just laying down for Hawkeye.
@@bigdrew565This is very true.
“You stabbed me in the back”
Must be good to be on friendly terms with the ship physician.
Whoops there he goes again!
We’ll not need the stretcher now. Sorry.
Stretcher bearers " Darn it "
Yeah, I was a stretcher bearer for a while and we never got to do anything during drills but sit around.
Now That's how you deal with captain Blyth!
The year I was born
Good ol' 1955!
I'll never understand why the captain is so hated in this story.
@Hal McAdams Signore, I don't get that. When did he blame the crew for a screwup? And suppose he did! I saw the movie several times and I read the play, and I can't find anything to inspire this level of enmity. Captains are supposed to be tough disciplinarians. This one seems much more balanced than, say, Captain Queeg. Really, the snarky, sarcastic hatred shown by the crew is disproportionate to what the captain is actually seen to be doing.
Are you being facetious? I really hope so
@Hal McAdams yes I can agree, and it is just 71 more day of his BS
@@johneastman1905 70 more very LONG days....
@@goback3spaces You don't win respect by being a jerk. We had a capt who was a jerk and o one liked him.
I always thought 'on the double' meant something very different.
Is this the same story as Ensign Pulver movie ?
That was the sequel.
Hot mic there Cappy.
You gotta hand it to Hollywood when it comes to Navy movies…
The Caine Mutiny
Mr Roberts
The Bridges of Toko Ri
Tora Tora Tora
In Harms Way
Midway
Off and a Gentleman
Topgun
The Hunt for Red October
A few good men
I know I’m missing a few.
This one though is at the top.
As a retired Navy guy who wore both uniforms, enlisted and Commissioned who is also the son of a WWII Navy vet as well… Thank you for the timeless stories of our particular service.
Neat little prank.
The captain was terrible but they’re laughing about this guying almost having a heart attack.
William Powell's last movie. shame he couldn't make 50 more.
We were just discussing one of Powell's best and largely forgotten roles at dinner tonight, as Clarence Day, Sr. in "Life With Father."
One terrible irony of this movie, Mr Roberts finally gets a transfer off the ship to another one, and dies in a Kamikaze attack on his new ship. So as in real life, sometimes you step out of a frying pan and into a fire.
Were Fonda and a couple of other actors here really WWII Navy officers? The dialogue is all wrong. It's "medical officer" or "MO", not "doctor" -- that's civilian talk. Likewise "bunk" or "berth" -- not "couch". There are other cases in which they don't refer to military (24-hr.) clock times, but civilian times, etc.
Being historically accurate sometimes takes second place in movies. A lay person understands doctor is a medical doctor, they might not understand a medical officer is a doctor who has gone to ODS and become a naval officer.
I believe Fonda actually did serve in the Navy during WW II, but I'm not sure; just writing from something I remember reading.
@@TricksterDa Fonda went to Navy boot camp in San Diego during WWII. My Dad, who lived in San Diego, met him in San Diego and attended Fonda's graduation party in San Diego and his follow up party in Hollywood. Fonda wanted to be an enlisted man, not an officer, though he could have had a commission. He wanted to be one of the men and just a regular guy.
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@@Doug326 thanks for the info. Appreciated.
The job of a movie maker is to entertain the audience, not to obsess on correct terminology.
I have never seen the movie; was that an unplanned mutiny?
Nope.
The hardest job, for many Officers, is just gaining the RESPECT of those you command!
BUT, once you've got that, they would follow you to the gates of Hell !
And later, tell the tale to their Grandchildren!
What does Morton think Roberts did?
Capt Mortaon thought Roberts showed disrespect by throwing the Captain's Palm Tree overboard. And, the Captain was right!
A man that laughs at another man's faults has many more faults than the man they laugh at. Good example of man's disgusting urgency to criticize when they don't know truth. A sad epitaph.
Mister Roberts was something of a hypocrite when you think about it. Earlier in the movie he openly berated ensign Pulver saying: "Frank - the day you actually put those marbles in the captains overhead & then have the guts to knock on his door and say - 'captain, I put those marbles in your overhead, that's the day I'll look up to you as being a man". And yet Roberts hasn't got the guts to confess - face to face - that it was he who threw the palm tree overboard. Still, this is one of my all time favourite movies.
so how is Mr Roberts as a study in leadership? i think he may be too soft a little and maybe too close to the crew, HOWEVER this could be because it has degenerated to us vs the tyrant Captain.
He had the respect of his men and he got the job done.
Is this how it is in the Navy for real?
I was active duty in the Navy for six years and don't regret one second of it. Yeah, there were those occasional "unique" individuals in command positions that you scratched your head about and wondered what fool promoted them. But obviously in this movie and others, like South Pacific for example, military life is embellished and exaggerated for entertainment value. The inane things eventually became fond memories. The Chief to a seaman: "What are you doing sailor?" Reply: "Milling around smartly." Comeback: "Carry on."
How is Henry Fonda a famous actor.. lol
You could do better, I suppose?
Maybe bc he was a GREAT actor?
He's a very wooden actor. reads lines like a robot.
@@jordanmc9015 Do you have any acting awards?
greatest play ever on broadway...garbage like "hamilton" isnt in the same league
One of my favorite movies.