The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
You'll crack your timbers when you see how the Navy sticks the Army sad sacks with the crumbiest ship afloat!
99 min
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
- Release date
- December 29, 1960
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- George Duning
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Cast
- Jack Lemmon as Lt. Rip Crandall
- Ricky Nelson as Ens. Tommy Hanson
- John Lund as Lt. Cmdr. Wilbur Vandewater
- Chips Rafferty as Patterson
- Tom Tully as Capt. McClung
- Joby Baker as Josh Davidson
- Warren Berlinger as Radioman A.J. Sparks
- Patricia Driscoll as Maggie
- Mike Kellin as Chief Mate Jack MacCarthy
- Richard Anderson as Lt. Dennis Foster
- Alvy Moore as Johnson
- Joseph Gallison
- Teru Shimada as Samada
- George Shibata as Captain Shigetsu
- Phil Adams as Crewman (uncredited)
- John Anderson as Sailor (uncredited)
- Nesdon Booth as Chief Petty Officer (uncredited)
- Naaman Brown as Corporal Goroka (uncredited)
- Clive Halliday as Australian Major General (uncredited)
- Dale Ishimoto as Japanese Pilot (uncredited)
- Roy Jenson as Shark Bait (uncredited)
- Richard Quine as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Sid Tomack as Arthur (uncredited)
Crew
- Richard Murphy · Director
- Richard Murphy · Writer
- Herb Margolis · Writer
- William Raynor · Writer
- Herbert Carlson · Writer
- Fred Kohlmar · Producer
- George Duning · Composer
- Charles Lawton Jr. · Cinematographer
- Charles Nelson · Editor