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Minesweeper

"DANGER AFLOAT! ABOVE, BELOW AND ACROSS THE SEAS...WITH THE HEROIC MEN OF THE COAST GUARD!"

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

Top Cast

  • Richard Arlen

    Richard Arlen

    Richard Houston

  • Jean Parker

    Jean Parker

    Mary Smith

  • Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

    Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

    CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith

  • Emma Dunn

    Emma Dunn

    Mom Smith

  • Charles D. Brown

    Charles D. Brown

    Commander Lane

  • Frank Fenton

    Frank Fenton

    Lt. Ralph Gilpin

  • Chick Chandler

    Chick Chandler

    Seaman 'Corny' Welch

  • Douglas Fowley

    Douglas Fowley

    Cutter Lieutenant Wells

  • Robert Mitchum

    Robert Mitchum

    Seaman Chuck Ryan

Overview

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

Rating

5.2 / 10
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 Jun 26, 2022

    Richard Arlen ("Houston/Jim") deserts from the US Navy only to re-enlist (under a pseudonym) after Pearl Harbor is attacked. He is assigned to a minesweeper where he must defuse these lethal obstacles to shipping in the Pacific Ocean. That's the exciting bit. The rest of it is a bog-standard melodrama with him falling for "Mary" (Jean Parker) and engaging is some rather dull sparring with fellow seaman "Nash" (Russell Hayden) for her affections. It's only when "Nash" saves the life of his competitor that "Lieut. Gilpin" (Frank Fenton) discovers some flaws with Arlen's backstory and our would-be hero, facing some precarious scenarios at home and at sea, considers doing yet another runner before he rallies to participate in a final deadly mission. The action bits at sea are quite interesting - it's not often we see anything from this wartime perspective; but the acting here is pretty ordinary and the melodramatic elements with the overly contrived plot make for a quite an unnecessarily convoluted story that I found quite boring after a while. As my year 7 school report card might have said -"Could do better"

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