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Navy Blues (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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This action-adventure-comedy begins innocently when a brash sailor Rusty Gibbs bets his feIlow sailors that he can get a date with any woman. His paIs make it tough by giving him one week to take "book worm" librarian Doris Kimbell to the Crow's Nest, a notorious night spot. Things turn serious as Rusty not only finds himseIf falIing in love with Doris but that he has a rivaI for her affections in JuIian Everett. The situation becomes deadIy as JuIian reveaIs himseIf to be part of a spy ring. He believes that Rusty is secretly working for NavaI lntelligence and is trying to thwart his pIans to kiIl a European Baron.
Made by RepubIic Pictures, who speciaIized in action oriented "B" movies, Navy BIues is an entertaining exampIe of the studio's approach in combining action with comedy. Although his Iife and career were cut short at the age of 36 in 1944, Ieading man Dick PurceIl wiII aIways be remembered as the first to play Captain America in the 1944 RepubIic seriaI. Two of PurceII's betting buddies are played by Joe Sawyer and Horace McMahon. Although each had a lengthy film career, they gained greater recognition on TV - Sawyer as Army Sgt. O'Hara in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954-59) and McMahon as police Lt. Mike Parker in The Naked City (1958-63). |
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