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    We Joined the Navy (1962)

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    Kenneth More plays Royal Navy officer Lieutenant Commander ‘Bodger’ Badger – a likeable officer who is just too honest with his opinions.

    When his latest feelings about the Royal Navy’s incompetence becomes national news, “the Bodger” is posted to the American Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean accompanied by a trio of hapless British cadet midshipmen – Dewberry (Jeremy Lloyd), Bowles (Dinsdale Landen) and Carson (Derek Fowlds) – from Dartmouth naval training College.

    Arriving at Villefranche on the Riviera where the Sixth Fleet is at anchor, Badger has his first encounter with Vice Admiral “Tiger” Ryan (Lloyd Nolan) – commander of the Sixth Fleet – who is in mufti at the time of their meeting. What transpires does nothing for Anglo-American relations and serves only to confirm the Admiral’s initial suspicions that British naval personnel are a menace both to themselves and to everyone around them.

    On reporting aboard the flagship, the three midshipmen are given jobs which they are least suited to carry out – it being the Admiral’s view that a good officer should be able to turn his hand to anything in case of emergency.

    Dewberry is put in charge of ship’s entertainment; Bowles is responsible for sports, and the sea sickness-prone Carson is put in charge of the mail – which involves a daily journey over a choppy sea in a small launch. Scrape follows scrape for the midshipmen, and for “the Bodger” whose job it is to get them out of trouble.

    The Admiral’s pet dog, Albert, also joins enthusiastically in the goings-on and, quite literally, really gets his teeth into things.

    American Navy Nurse Lieutenant Carol Blair (Joan O’Brien) is attached to the Anglo-American Hospital at Villefranche.

    Watch out for some brief cameos by Sid James, Warren Mitchell, Rodney Bewes, Michael Bentine, Brian Wilde and Dirk Bogarde as Doctor Simon Sparrow, the same character he played in the Doctor series of films.

    Lt. Commander Robert “Bodger” Badger
    Kenneth More
    Vice Admiral “Tiger” Ryan
    Lloyd Nolan
    Lt. Carol Blair
    Joan O’Brien
    Colonel/President
    Mischa Auer
    Midshipman Dewberry 
    Jeremy Lloyd
    Midshipman Bowles
    Dinsdale Landen
    Midshipman Carson
    Derek Fowlds
    Collette
    Denise Warren
    George Dewberry Sr.
    John Le Mesurier
    Mrs Cynthia Dewberry
    Lally Bowers
    Admiral Blake
    Laurence Naismith
    Admiral Filmer
    Andrew Cruickshank
    Admiral Thomas
    Walter Fitzgerald
    Rear Admiral
    John Phillips
    Commander R.N.
    Ronald Leigh-Hunt

    Director
    Wendy Toye

    Video

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