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Mister Roberts (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 19, 2006
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell & Jack Lemmon | |
Performer: | Ward Bond, Betsy Palmer, Phil Carey, Nick Adams, Harry Carey, Jr., Ken Curtis, Frank Aletter, Fritz Ford, William Henry, William Hudson & Harry Tenbrook | |
Directed by | John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy | |
Edited by | Jack Murray | |
Screenwriting by | Joshua Logan & Frank S. Nugent | |
Composition by | Franz Waxman | |
Art Direction by | Art Loell | |
Produced by | Leland Hayward | |
Director of Photography: | Winton C. Hoch |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1955 -
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Lemmon
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4.5/5 --
A strikingly superior entertainment.
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New York Times
The acting is the only reason to watch it.
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Time Out
The setting is a supply ship in the war torn Pacific, but there's little action and the piece soon wears out what little welcome it might have had.
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Film4
Rating: 3/5 --
Still an expert mix of sentiment, comedy, patriotism and anarchy.
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Empire Magazine
Henry Fonda stars, as brilliant as ever.
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Chicago Reader
James Cagney is simply great as the captain of the ship.
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Variety
Rating: B- --
The success of the uninspired movie is a testament to star performances from the talented cast rather than to the film's directors.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
The film represents Henry Fonda's return to the screen after an absence of seven years, part of which was spent playing the eponymous officer in the immensely successful stage version of Thomas Heggen's novel. As cargo officer and second in command on a supply ship during World War II, the easygoing Lt. Doug Roberts is excluded from a much desired combat role while playing whipping boy to dyspeptic tyrant Captain Morion (James Cagney). Ensign Frank Pulver (Jack Lemmon), a brash yet cowardly wheeler-dealer, entertains Roberts with his elaborate pranks while the fatherly Doc (William Powell in his last screen appearance) offers advice. The young crew tries every available means of killing boredom, including eyeballing the nurses on a nearby island through a telescope, and Roberts does what he can to get them the R and R they badly need. The film had a troubled production history, mostly because of conflicts between Fonda, a friend of author Thomas Heggen's, and Ford, who wished to make changes that Fonda disliked. Shortly after physically attacking Fonda, Ford suffered a ruptured gallbladder and was replaced by Mervyn LeRoy. Fonda is excellent, and Lemmon gives an inspired, Oscar-winning performance in a film that flows evenly from the comic to the tragic and stands among the best World War II films produced in the 1950s.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Mister Roberts
Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell and Academy Award(R) winner Jack Lemmon steer a ramshackle Navy cargo ship into the wartime comedy hall of fame. An all-time classic.
Year: 1955
Year: 1955
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 9,794
- UPC: 012569736351
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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