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Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when Major Vladikov, his old nemesis turned the second top terrorist in the world, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale aims to put Vladikov out of business.
Theatrical
Apr 18, 1997
Box Office
$4.5M
Budget
$42.0M
Return
0.1x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 3, 2003
Director
Producers
Studio
Universal Pictures, The Bubble Factory, Sheinberg Productions
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...
Cast
Full credits →T
Tom Arnold
Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale
D
Dean Stockwell
Capt. Wallace B. Binghampton
D
Debra Messing
Lt. Penelope Carpenter
D
David Alan Grier
Ensign Charles Parker
B
Bruce Campbell
Virgil
F
French Stewart
Happy
T
Tim Curry
Maj. Vladikov
E
Ernest Borgnine
Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.
D
Danton Stone
Gruber
B
Brian Haley
Christy
H
Henry Cho
Willie
T
Tommy Chong
Armando/Ernesto
E
Erick Avari
European Leader (uncredited)
J
James Hong
Asian Leader (uncredited)
L
Luisa Huertas
Nurse
J
John Pyper-Ferguson
Interrupting Henchman
