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Meet the Navy (film)

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Genre
  
Comedy, Musical, War

Initial release
  
September 2, 1946

Running time
  
1h 25m

4.8/10
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Director
  
Alfred Travers

Adapted from
  
Meet the Navy

Writer
  
Lester Cooper (story), Lester Cooper (screenplay), James Seymour (additional material)

Cast
  
Lionel Murton, Margaret Hurst, Robert Goodier, John Pratt, Phyllis Hudson

Genres
  
Comedy, Musical, Musical comedy

Similar movies
  
Trottie True (1949), Lets Be Happy, London Town (1946), Every Days a Holiday (1965), Gonks Go Beat (1965)

Meet the navy 1946 remembrance day musical


Meet the Navy is a 1946 British musical comedy film based on the Canadian musical revue Meet the Navy. Filmed in England in November 1945, it was directed by Alfred Travers and produced by British National Films. It starred Lionel Murton, Margaret Hurst and John Pratt. A musical troupe entertain sailors from the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, and the film shows their personal history and experiences. The film concludes with a Technicolor sequence, with the cast involved in a Royal Command Performance, featuring a young Princess Elizabeth.

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Cast

  • Lionel Murton ... Johnny
  • Margaret Hurst ... Midge
  • John Pratt ... Horace
  • Robert Goodier ... Tommy
  • Phyllis Hudson ... Jenny
  • Percy Haynes ... Cook
  • Bill Oliver ... C.P.O. Oliver
  • Jeanette De Hueck ... Gracie
  • Oscar Natzke ... Fisherman
  • Alan Lund ... Dancer
  • Mae Richards ... Dancer
  • Critical reception

    Allmovie described the film as "Virtually plotless, the British Meet the Navy is not so much a film as a musical revue. Which is as it should be, since the film is based on the Royal Canadian Navy stage show of the same name, originally put together by radio musical arranger Louis Silvers and choreographer Larry Ceballos. Like its Hollywood predecessor This Is the Army, Meet the Navy is so smooth and professional-looking that one doubts the publicity claims that the cast was composed entirely of talented amateurs. Few of the cast members went on to illustrious careers, though most were certainly capable of doing so"; and TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars, calling it "An entertaining British musical."

    References

    Meet the Navy (film) Wikipedia
    Meet the Navy (film) IMDb