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Wallace Beery and director William A. "Wild Bill" Wellman had more in common besides long and celebrated film careers: They were flyboys who loved piloting their own planes. This Man's Navy returns both - in feisty, fighting form - to the skies in a thrilling and sentimental World War II tale that salutes the lighter-than-air airships of the US Naval and Marine Corps. Ned "Old Gasbag" Trumpet (Beery) skippers a dirigible training unit and, per his nickname, spins tall tales, including one about a fictitious son, rankling fellow corpsman Jimmy Shannon (James Gleason, a perfect partner in bluster to Beery). Ned "adopts" young Jess Weaver (Tom Drake) as his "son," securing an operation to fix jess' disabled legs and enabling Jess to earn his Navy wings as a combat pilot. Their bond is tested on a submarine patrol mission when miscommunicated bombing orders cost lives, ending in disgrace for Ned. But another combat mission affords a second chance for "father" and "son" to fly their true heroic colors - and steer This Man's Navy home to glory.
Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Rating
- NR
- Originally Released
- 1945
- Runtime
- 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Label
- Warner
- Starring
- Wallace Beery;Tom Drake;James Gleason;Jan Clayton;Selena Royle;Noah Beery Sr.;Henry O'Neill;Steve Brodie;George Chandler;Donald Curtis;Arthur Walsh;Will Fowler;Frank Fenton;Paul Cavanagh;Dick Crockett
Manufactured on Demand
This film was released by studios as part of their MOD (Manufactured-On-Demand) line of releases. This is not a bootleg. In order to make the release of films with low sales demand possible, major studios like Universal, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Hallmark and 20th Century Fox have contracted with a distributor to provide manufactured-on-demand releases to consumers.