The Navy granted Warner Brothers an unprecedented degree of access to film on location at Naval Air Station Coronado, California, and on board the USS Enterprise (CV-6) anchored in San Diego.
Flynn’s out to solve the problem of pilot-blackout MacMurray and he go from being adversaries to allies in this quest. Navy movies our list of the best of the best follows, in chronological order:ĭIVE BOMBER (1941)-In this engaging early example of Technicolor filmmaking, Errol Flynn stars as a Harvard-educated flight surgeon butting heads with naval aviator Fred MacMurray and vying for the hand of the lovely Alexis Smith.
Nonetheless, there are numerous must-see U.S. Where are the great sea-fights of the Quasi-War, the Barbary War, the War of 1812? A wealth of material with cinematic potential is there, yearning to be tapped. 1959’s John Paul Jones stars Robert Stack as America’s first sea hero, but it doesn’t remotely do its subject justice. 1952’s Yankee Buccaneer depicts the Navy’s pirate-chasing efforts in the early 19th century, but it’s not all that memorable. What’s most striking about the history of the Hollywood/Navy nexus is the almost criminal under-representation of the Age of American Fighting Sail. To celebrate the Navy’s birthday, we offer a bit of entertainment-a tour through the best U.S. Tinseltown on occasion has seen fit to go down to the sea in ships, U.S.
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