''Let's Go Navy!'' is a 1951
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
starring
The Bowery Boys
The Bowery Boys are fictional New York City characters, portrayed by a company of New York actors, who were the subject of 48 feature films released by Monogram Pictures and its successor Allied Artists Pictures Corporation from 1946 through 195 ...
. The film was released on July 29, 1951 by
Monogram Pictures
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and is the twenty-third film in the series.
Plot
A local charity has raised sixteen hundred dollars and entrusted the boys with it. They are then robbed of the cash by two men dressed as sailors. Believing them to be real sailors, and in order to catch them, they enlist in the Navy under fake names. They spend a year at sea, but cannot locate the thieves. However, Sach is able to win two thousand dollars gambling and the boys return to the Bowery. It is there that they are robbed by the same two men, but with the Navy captain helping, they are able to capture the crooks. They return to the navy office to receive their commendations, but are mistakenly re-enlisted!
Cast
The Bowery Boys
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Leo Gorcey
Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917– June 2, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and, as adults, The Bowery Boys. Gorcey was ...
as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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Huntz Hall
Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall (August 15, 1920 – January 30, 1999) was an American radio, stage, and movie performer who appeared in the popular "Dead End Kids" movies, including ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), and in the later " Bowery ...
as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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William Benedict
William Benedict (April 16, 1917 – November 25, 1999), was an American actor, perhaps best known for playing "Whitey" in Monogram Pictures' The Bowery Boys series.
Early years
Benedict was born in Haskell, Oklahoma, After his father's dea ...
as Whitey
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David Gorcey
David Gorcey (February 6, 1921 – October 23, 1984) was an American actor and the younger brother of actor Leo Gorcey. Gorcey is best known for portraying "Chuck Anderson" in Monogram Pictures' film series The Bowery Boys, and "Pee Wee" in i ...
as Chuck
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Buddy Gorman
Charles J. "Buddy" Gorman''Hollywood's Made-To-Order-Punks: The Complete Film History of the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids, and Bowery Boys,'' Richard Roat, BearManor Media, 2010. (September 2, 1921 – April 1, 2010) was an A ...
as Butch
Remaining cast
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Bernard Gorcey
Bernard Gorcey (9 January 1886 – 11 September 1955) was a Russian-born American actor. He began in Vaudeville, performed on Broadway, and appeared in multiple shorts and films. He portrayed ice cream shop proprietor Louie Dumbrowski in ...
as Louie Dumbrowski
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Allen Jenkins
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Life and career
Jenkins was born on Staten Island, New York, on April 9, 190 ...
as Chief Petty Officer Mervin Longnecker
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Tom Neal
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as Joe
*Charlita as Princess Papoola
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Richard Benedict
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He appeared in dozens of television programs and movies from ...
as Red
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Paul Harvey
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as Lieutenant Commander O. Tannen
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Jonathan Hale
Jonathan Hale (born Jonathan Hatley; March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor.
Life and career
Hale was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before his acting career, Hale worked in the Diplomatic Co ...
as Captain
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Emory Parnell
Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville performer and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career.
Early years
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Parnell trained as a musician at Morningside ...
as Police Sergeant Mulloy
*Douglas Evans as Lieutenant Smith
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Ray Walker as Lt. Bradley
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Frank Jenks
Frank Jenks (November 4, 1902 – May 13, 1962) was an acid-voiced American supporting actor of stage and films.
Biography Early years
Jenks was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and his mother gave him a trombone when he was 9 years old. By his ...
as
Shell game
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sailor
Production
This is the final Bowery Boys film to feature
Buddy Gorman
Charles J. "Buddy" Gorman''Hollywood's Made-To-Order-Punks: The Complete Film History of the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids, and Bowery Boys,'' Richard Roat, BearManor Media, 2010. (September 2, 1921 – April 1, 2010) was an A ...
; beginning with the next film in the series,
Bennie Bartlett
Floyd B. Bartlett, known professionally as Benny Bartlett or Bennie Bartlett (August 16, 1924 – December 26, 1999), was an American child actor, musician, and later a member of the long-running feature-film series ''The Bowery Boys''.
Biog ...
rejoined the group. It is also the last one produced by
Jan Grippo, who left the series after his wife died.
The movie was written by
Leonard Stern under the pseudonym Max Adams. After co-writing ''
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
''Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town'' is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the second installment of Universal Pictures, Universal-International's ''Ma and Pa Kettle'' series starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.
Plot
A ...
'' with
Martin Ragaway
Martin Ragaway (January 29, 1923 – April 20, 1989) was an American comedy writer.
Career
Ragaway's early credits include the Abbott and Costello radio program in the late 1940s. Along with Leonard B. Stern, Leonard Stern, he created the "Sam S ...
, Stern wanted to try his hand at writing a feature on his own. When he finally got the assignment for ''Let's Go Navy!'' he adopted the pseudonym because he "wasn't particularly proud of doing a Bowery Boy
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Acronyms
* Identity Lifecycle Manager, a Microsoft Server Product
* '' I Love Money,'' a TV show on VH1
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.
Home media
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order
DVD
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in the United States as part of ''"The Bowery Boys, Volume Two"'' on April 9, 2013.
References
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1951 comedy films
1951 films
American black-and-white films
Bowery Boys films
Monogram Pictures films
Military humor in film
Films directed by William Beaudine
American comedy films
1950s English-language films
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