Mister Roberts behind the scenes gags

2022-10-03 13:07
·This film is the last film starring William Powell .
· Before starring in the film version of "Mr. Rob", Henry Fonda won the 1948 Tony Award for the same role he portrayed on the Broadway stage.
·When preparing to shoot the motorcycle rushing out of the dock, the stuntman refused to finish. The director John Ford found a volunteering naval soldier Jack Lewis among the crowd. Although he had never ridden a motorcycle, he still had Have the guts to try it. According to military regulations, Ford could not allow the young man to accept a payment of 700 dollars, so he walked into the nearby Hilton Hotel and told the manager that Lewis could spend a year at the bar at will, and all expenses were charged to Ford's own account. Later, Jack Lewis became a writer and publisher.
The role of Doc was originally hoped to be played by Spencer Cusser, but he refused.
·When filming the scene where Pulver told the captain that he had been on the ship for 14 years, James Cagney, who played the captain, rehearsed many times because he often laughed, but in the end he still couldn't stand up.
·The film was directed by two directors because John Ford quit midway, and the rest of the filming was done by Melvin Leroy. There are two reasons for John Ford's withdrawal. One is to give up due to illness, and the second is because Ford and Henry Fonda have a serious disagreement and even fist together.
· Marlon Brando and William Holden refused to play Rob.
·The real serial number of the cargo ship in the film is USSVirgoAKA20-AE30
Cross-cut shots: The envelopes sent by friends from Pulvo have stamps on them, but the letters sent from the battlefield do not need stamps.
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Mister Roberts quotes

  • Chief Petty Officer Dowdy: [after Schlemmer crashes police motorcycle off end of dock] Schlemmer! Get up here, you idiot! What're you tryin' to do?

    Schlemmer: [jumping back in the water] I forgot my motorcycle!

  • Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver: [reading Mr. Roberts' letter] Doc, I've been aboard this destroyer for two weeks now and we've already been through four air attacks. I'm in the war at last, Doc! I've caught up with that task force that passed me by. I'm glad to be here. I had to be here, I guess. But I'm thinking now of you, Doc,and you, Frank. And Dolan, and Dowdy, and Insigna and everyone else on that bucket. All the guys everywhere who sail from tedium to apathy and back again, with an occasional side trip to monotony. This is a tough crew on here, and they have a wonderful battle record. But I've discovered, Doc, that the unseen enemy of this war is the boredom that eventually becomes a faith and, therefore, a terrible sort of suicide. l know now that the ones who refuse to surrender to it are the strongest of all. Right now I'm looking at something that's hanging over my desk. A preposterous hunk of brass attached to the most bilious piece of ribbon I've ever seen. I'd rather have it than the Congressional Medal of Honor. It tells me what I'll always be proudest of - that at a time in the world when courage counted most I lived among 62 brave men.

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