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Box office. $3.6 million [ 1 ] The Wackiest Ship in the Army is an American 1960 Eastmancolor CinemaScope comedy-drama war film directed by Richard Murphy and starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, and Chips Rafferty. It was filmed at Pearl Harbor and Kauai. The story is a dramatized, fictionalized account of a real ship known as the USS Echo.
Synopsis. 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.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1961) Second World War comedy starring Jack Lemmon. A luckless naval lieutenant is duped into commanding a dangerous mission into enemy territory during the Battle ...
The Wackiest Ship in the Army: Directed by Richard Murphy. With Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty. During WW2, Lt. Rip Crandall, who was a yachtsman before the war, takes command of the USS Echo, a sailing ship, for a secret mission in waters patrolled by Japanese warships.
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Richard Murphy
- 1960-12-29
During WW II, Lt. Rip Crandall (Lemmon) is given command of the USS Echo, a run-down ship with the archetypal inexperienced, motley crew, then assigned to deliver an Australian observer to a ...
During WW II, Lt. Rip Crandall (Lemmon) commands the USS Echo, a run-down ship with the archetypal inexperienced, motley crew, assigned to deliver an Australian observer to a Japanese-held island. Jack Lemmon is in dazzling comedic form as he captains this rickety Navy vessel and ironically, they become a major factor in the winning of a strategic WWII battle.
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