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McHale's Navy

McHale's Navy (1964)Cast and Crew

Movie"Their first full-length motion picture in color !"

Cast

E
Ernest Borgnine
as Quinton McHale
T
Tim Conway
as Ensign Charles Parker
J
Joe Flynn
as Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
B
Bob Hastings
as Lt. Elroy Carpenter
G
Gary Vinson
as Quartermaster George Christopher (Christy)
J
John Wright
as Willy Moss
C
Carl Ballantine
as Torpedoman Lester Gruber
B
Billy Sands
as Motor Machinist Mate Harrison Bell
E
Edson Stroll
as Virgil Edwards
G
Gavin MacLeod
as Seaman Joseph 'Happy' Hanes
Y
Yoshio Yoda
as Fuji Kobiaji
J
Jean Willes
as Margot Monet
C
Claudine Longet
as Andrea Bouchard
G
George Kennedy
as Henri Le Clerc

Crew

E
Edward Montagne
Director
S
Si Rose
Story
G
George Carleton Brown
Writer
F
Frank Gill Jr.
Writer

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 good, either by transfer or court martial. Although they are forever getting into trouble, they (almost always unwittingly) get out of trouble. Despite their scheming, conniving, and often lazy and unmilitary ways, McHale's crew is always successful in combat in the end. The entire show is based on only two locations, one in the South Pacific at a fictional base called Taratupa (the inferred location is in the Solomon Islands) and an equally fictional town in Italy called Voltafiore.