In Mr. Roberts where Ens. Pulver blows up the laundry, the captain throws a conniption, no one knows where their GQ stations are, and the Doc has to be called up to the capt’s office, walking up slowly and whistling a tune.
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That, or, “We are gonna need a bigger boat”.
It was something drummed into us when deploying paravanes for minesweepering. No gloves!
Always wore gloves handling tigger wires though.
Didn’t mean to go off-topic, just sounds awful.
Speaking of handling wire, there is a scene early in “The Cruel Sea” where the crew can be seen in the background on-deck handling wire.
I noticed they were uncoiling the wire wrong which irritated me and it caused me to momentarily have problems with my willingness to suspend disbelief. After I had watched the whole movie I realized that the scene was intended to portray the crew as new and inexperienced. Had they been doing it correctly it would have been less believable.
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Look around!
Hell, just the scene of that old Doxford pounding away is priceless. . . . .
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I thought the engine room scene in the Titanic showing the steam reciprocating engines was quite good but the rest of the movie was quite painfull. Every time I muttered under my breath I got a sharp blow in the ribs from the missus.
Another movie that I can’t remember the name of was about a small USN ship in the Pacific. After a long time at sea the ship tied up at a pier that was miles from the shore and granted liberty. Two sailors were bitching about being on duty and in the far distance appeared a flashing red light. The two sailors looked at each other and one said “I knew there would be trouble.”
Then you could hear a siren with the noise slowly increasing.
Finally a police motor bike shot past the bottom of the gangway, driven by a hatless drunken seaman, and continued straight off the pier.
The expressions on the faces of the two duty seamen was absolutely priceless.
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That scene with the motorcycle is from “Mr. Roberts” IIRC.
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THAT was Mr. Roberts!
As did I!
The scene I enjoyed most in the Mr Roberts film was when the guys finally got leave. When leave was up one drunk sailor was riding a motorcycle to report back. He overshot his stop and went off the end of the pier and into the drink. When they fished him out he jumped back in saying, “I want my motorcycle”. Yeah, ya know they needed leave bad.
One of my best movie memories from when I was a kid.
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Don’t know about the best,but one of the worst has to be The last Voyage.
When the sailor has stolen the goat with the nametag on its collar:
Whats her name?
Propertyof
On further thought, I must also nominate the scene from Battleship where they bring the Missouri out of mothballing. I was having a hysterical laughing fit while my landlubber friends totally missed the joke. After they pretty much just twisted the key to light her up, the mooring chains falling away in perfect unison fits nicely:
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Wow! So much to hate in one little clip! I was in physical pain watching that fellow pretending to cut a chain.
Reminds me of when a fellow Corpsman and I went to see The Hospital (George C. Scott). We were just about rolling in the aisles.
Looking at the comments that go with thaty clip, it appears they hit their target audience. And it ain’t us…
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It sure ain’t, but it’s plenty bad enough to be good. The whole thing is saturated with this kind of horror.
I loved that movie so much I started a thread about it: You’ve worked on destroyers haven’t you? Are you ready to play with the big boys?
That scene is my favorite.
One of my LEAST favorite… Ensign Pulver.
Tried to piggyback off the success of Mr. Roberts and couldn’t quite do it, despite some fine actors.
Better than that is later on when they drop the anchor at sea speed and power slide a battleship to line up a broadsides. You can’t go wrong with the AC DC playing in the background though!
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