Meet the Navy (film)

Meet the Navy
Directed by Alfred Travers
Produced by Louis H. Jackson
Screenplay by Lester Cooper
James Seymour
Story by Lester Cooper
Starring Lionel Murton
Margaret Hurst
John Pratt
Music by Eric Wild
Ronnie Munro
Cinematography Ernest Palmer
Geoffrey Unsworth (Technicolor sequence)
Edited by Lito Carruthers
Production
company
Distributed by Anglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 2 September 1946 (1946-09-02) (UK)
Running time
 85 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Meet the Navy is a 1946 British musical comedy film based on the Canadian musical revue Meet the Navy. Filmed in England in November 1945, it was directed by Alfred Travers and produced by British National Films. It starred Lionel Murton, Margaret Hurst and John Pratt.[1] A musical troupe entertain sailors from the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, and the film shows their personal history and experiences. The film concludes with a Technicolor sequence, with the cast involved in a Royal Command Performance, featuring a young Princess Elizabeth.[2]

Cast

  • Lionel Murton ... Johnny
  • Margaret Hurst ... Midge
  • John Pratt ... Horace
  • Robert Goodier ... Tommy
  • Phyllis Hudson ... Jenny
  • Percy Haynes ... Cook
  • Bill Oliver ... C.P.O. Oliver
  • Jeanette De Hueck ... Gracie
  • Oscar Natzke ... Fisherman
  • Alan Lund ... Dancer
  • Mae Richards ... Dancer

Critical reception

Allmovie described the film as "Virtually plotless, the British Meet the Navy is not so much a film as a musical revue. Which is as it should be, since the film is based on the Royal Canadian Navy stage show of the same name, originally put together by radio musical arranger Louis Silvers and choreographer Larry Ceballos. Like its Hollywood predecessor This Is the Army, Meet the Navy is so smooth and professional-looking that one doubts the publicity claims that the cast was composed entirely of talented amateurs. Few of the cast members went on to illustrious careers, though most were certainly capable of doing so";[2] and TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars, calling it "An entertaining British musical."[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Meet the Navy (1946)".
  2. 1 2 "Meet the Navy (1946) - Alfred Travers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  3. ↑ "Meet The Navy".


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