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 |  Subject: The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)  Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:17 pm | |
| Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson.
The basis for this movie was from the real life USS Echo which was used as a supply ship in the navy in 1942-1944. A short-lived tv series of the same name was also created after this movie was out.
The plot was pretty simple to follow. A top secret mission to take a ship to waters patrolled by a Japanese Fleet. Jack Lemmon must take control of this ship full of inexperienced sailors which makes for some comedic moments. It gets pretty dramatic at the end. Jack Lemmon does a really good job acting and so does Ricky Nelson, surprisingly. Ricky Nelson is also a very successful singer during this time and shows off this talent in the movie during a scene.
Overall, it was just an ok movie. Nothing spectacular; if your a Jack Lemmon fan it might be worth watching.
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| | Subject: Re: The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:43 pm | |
| You pick some weird movies 
Technically this is a movie so off to the database it goes..
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| | Subject: Re: The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:50 pm | |
| | catbox_9 wrote: | You pick some weird movies
Technically this is a movie so off to the database it goes.. |
I liked The Apartment so I picked the next Jack Lemmon movie TCM showed. This movie won. IMDB gives this a 6.1/10 score.
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