The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.
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- TriviaVitaphone production reels #27A-#28A.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Tanks Are Coming (1941)
- SoundtracksAnchors Aweigh
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Music by Charles A. Zimmerman
Played during the opening credits and occasionally in the score
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Recruits go through basic training at San Diego Naval Base...
Strictly cornball stuff.
I went through training at San Diego and the only realism between basic training and this film are the background shots actually filmed at the San Diego base.
The story is a contrived bit of nonsense about three recruits (WILLIAM T. ORR, GEORGE REEVES and HERBERT ANDERSON), who are supervised by Chief Petty Officer ROBERT ARMSTRONG.
Predictably, Orr--who wants to see the ocean badly--gets seasick on his first outing on a boat--and the others are standard stock characters. Anderson is a guy who memorized the color chart (he's color blind) so he could enter the service. Reeves is your All-American boy.
Most of it is on the light side, played for laughs, and it was probably used as a good recruiting film for the U.S. Navy at the time. Excellent color photography and some good glimpses of guys undergoing physical training--but the story is sheer nonsense.
Worth a look if you're interested in training films but not much else can be said about it. The actors do well enough with sub-standard material.
I went through training at San Diego and the only realism between basic training and this film are the background shots actually filmed at the San Diego base.
The story is a contrived bit of nonsense about three recruits (WILLIAM T. ORR, GEORGE REEVES and HERBERT ANDERSON), who are supervised by Chief Petty Officer ROBERT ARMSTRONG.
Predictably, Orr--who wants to see the ocean badly--gets seasick on his first outing on a boat--and the others are standard stock characters. Anderson is a guy who memorized the color chart (he's color blind) so he could enter the service. Reeves is your All-American boy.
Most of it is on the light side, played for laughs, and it was probably used as a good recruiting film for the U.S. Navy at the time. Excellent color photography and some good glimpses of guys undergoing physical training--but the story is sheer nonsense.
Worth a look if you're interested in training films but not much else can be said about it. The actors do well enough with sub-standard material.
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- Doylenf
- Apr 21, 2009
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- Runtime20 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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