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McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force poster

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

"Their All New! All Wild! Full-Length Motion Picture in Technicolor!"

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G 1965 · 1h 26m
Comedy, War
Starring Joe Flynn · Tim Conway · Bob Hastings
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The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force.

Theatrical
Jul 9, 1965
Director
Edward Montagne
Studio
Universal Pictures
Keywords
world war ii u.s. air force u.s. navy franklin delano roosevelt slapstick comedy mistaken identity cross dressing buddy comedy soviet/russian navy
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J
Joe Flynn
Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
T
Tim Conway
Ensign Charles Parker
B
Bob Hastings
Lt. Elroy Carpenter
G
Gary Vinson
Quatermaster George Christopher
B
Billy Sands
Motor Machinist Mate Harrison Bell
E
Edson Stroll
Virgil Edwards
Y
Yoshio Yoda
Takeo 'Fuji' Fugiwara
G
Gavin MacLeod
Seaman Joseph Haines
T
Tom Tully
Gen. Harkness
T
Ted Bessell
Lt. Wilbur Harkness
J
Jean Hale
Sgt. Madge Collins
J
Jacques Aubuchon
Dimitri
L
Len Lesser
NKVD commissar
M
Mako
Japanese Submarine Captain (uncredited)
B
Berkeley Harris
Vogel

McHale's Navy Collection

The basic plot revolves around McHale's crew's wacky schemes to make money, get girls, and have a ball, and the efforts of Captain Binghamton (McHale's superior) to rid himself of the PT-73 crew for g...

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