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Director Val Guest’s frenetic 1957 British comedy Carry On Admiral [The Ship Was Loaded] is not a bona fide Carry On movie but something pretty similar, based on Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall’s stage farce […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s 1961 British black and white comedy Watch Your Stern stars Kenneth Connor as the extraordinarily incompetent Ordinary Seaman Blissworth, who impresses admiral Sir Humphrey Pettigrew (Noel Purcell) by pretending to be the […]
Director Robert Montgomery’s 1960 semi-documentary war movie features a solid, dignified, tightly reined-in performance from James Cagney as Fleet Admiral William F ‘Bull’ Halsey Jr, American South Pacific commander in World War Two. It is […]
Co-writer/ producer/ director Irwin Allen’s jolly 1961 sci-fi action adventure disaster movie tells his story about an atomic submarine sent to fix a hole in the Earth’s core. Walter Pidgeon plays the US Navy commander, […]
Director Roy Rowland’s 1955 movie is a happy remake of the 1930 musical comedy movie version of Hubert Osborne and Vincent Youmans’s hit 1927 Broadway show Shore Leave. It stars Tony Martin, Jane Powell, Ann Miller, […]
Leonard Nimoy takes over the helm as director of the third movie in 1984, in which the starship USS Enterprise is scheduled for scuttling, Bones McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is suffering from a Vulcan mindmeld, the […]
The whole old crew of the USS Starship Enterprise are all aboard for director Nicholas Meyer’s tighter, tauter and generally much improved 1982 first sequel to 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This time Ricardo […]