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A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.
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Richard Arlen
Richard Houston
Jean Parker
Mary Smith
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
Emma Dunn
Mom Smith
Charles D. Brown
Commander Lane
Frank Fenton
Lt. Ralph Gilpin
Chick Chandler
Seaman 'Corny' Welch
Douglas Fowley
Cutter Lieutenant Wells
Robert Mitchum
Seaman Chuck Ryan
Ralph Sanford
Seaman Cox
Billy Nelson
Bos'un 'Freshwater' Heims
Dub Taylor
Seaman Stubby Gordon
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Richard Arlen ("Houston/Jim") deserts from the US Navy only to re-enlist (under a pseudonym) after Pearl Harbor is attacked. He is assigned to a minesweeper where he must defuse these lethal obstacles to shipping in the Pacific Ocean. That's the exciting bit. The rest of it is a bog-standard melodrama with him falling for "Mary" (Jean Parker) and engaging is some rather dull sparring with fellow seaman "Nash" (Russell Hayden) for her affections. It's only when "Nash" saves the life of his competitor that "Lieut. Gilpin" (Frank Fenton) discovers some flaws with Arlen's backstory and our would-be hero, facing some precarious scenarios at home and at sea, considers doing yet another runner before he rallies to participate in a final deadly mission. The action bits at sea are quite interesting - it's not often we see anything from this wartime perspective; but the acting here is pretty ordinary and the melodramatic elements with the overly contrived plot make for a quite an unnecessarily convoluted story that I found quite boring after a while. As my year 7 school report card might have said -"Could do better"
Geronimo196726 Jun, 2022
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