[New Englander]

Originally Posted by John_W

If you're looking for a naval drama, a film that came out around the same time was The Caine Mutiny, it stars everyone's favorite Humphrey Bogart. Even though Bogart was the Captain the film was more of an ensemble with Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray as antagonist to Bogart and Jose Ferrer as the lawyer was the main courtroom player. Another actor Robert Francis who played the young Ensign "Willie" and had a pretty big part, you could tell he was on his way to becoming a star, unfortunately died a year later in a small plane crash.

Something I learned in the 70's about Van Johnson, who was always a favorite of mine. He came to St. Petersburg in a dinner theater show and I knew one of waitresses at the Showboat, and that's when I learned he was gay. He had his boyfriend along with him, although there's nothing wrong with that.

I gave the movie 10 out of 10 and probably have seen it at least 10 times.

I watched this last night. What a great movie with a stellar cast. I'd forgot about Bogie rolling the ball bearings around in his hand. But I remembered the missing strawberries.