Yanks Ahoy

Jun 29, 1943

1h 0m

★ 6.3

Funnist Army comedy yet!

Overview

Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Hal Roach Studios

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Cast

Sgt. Dorian 'Dodo' Doubleday

William Tracy

Sgt. Ames

Joe Sawyer

Phyllis Arden

Marjorie Woodworth

Capt. Scott

Minor Watson

Quartermaster Jenkins

Frank Faylen

Capt. Gillis

Walter Woolf King

Col. Elliott

Romaine Callender

Lt. Reeves

Robert Kent

Ens. Crosby (uncredited)

William Bakewell

Miss Potter (uncredited)

Marga Ann Deighton

Cook Flynn (uncredited)

James Finlayson

Colonel's Orderly (uncredited)

Alan Hale Jr.

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

5.9

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Dec 29, 1960

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.

3.5

The Sudden and Premature Death of Colonel K.K.

Jan 1, 1987

The entire movie is shot in one take. It shows how a command is twisted from the moment it was given by a colonel to the moment it reaches a regular soldier.

5.0

Here Come the Waves

Dec 18, 1944

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

5.6

This Is the Army

Aug 14, 1943

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

5.6

The Sad Sack

Nov 27, 1957

Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training. Dolan and Stan both have scores to settle with Bixby and their "guidance" leads to more mishaps. Sergeant Pulley has them shipped out to Morocco. On leave in North Africa, Bixy wanders alone into a bar, has a few Moroccan Delights, which he thinks are malted milks, and becomes convinced that exotic singer-dancer Zita is THE girl for him.

6.0

Private Benjamin

Oct 6, 1980

A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

5.3

At War with the Army

Dec 31, 1950

Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby.

7.5

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Jul 26, 1943

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

5.4

Chasers

Apr 22, 1994

Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon proves that she's craftier than most inmates.

6.5

Gunga Din

Jan 26, 1939

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

6.4

Idiocracy

Sep 1, 2006

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

6.3

Buffalo Soldiers

Oct 31, 2002

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

4.3

Best Defense

Jul 20, 1984

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

7.2

Tai-Chi Master

Nov 18, 1993

Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.

4.8

Morgen, ihr Luschen! Der Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film

Apr 23, 2009

World peace is under threat - it's a good thing that instructor Schmidt exists. As a sharpshooter with a cigar, sunglasses and beret, he immediately suspects the terrorist conspiracy lurking behind the peace summit at Schwangau Castle. The aim is to unite the strife-torn Kallushistan. Princess Shirin and the pacifist recruit Rainer assist in the hunt for alleged assassins.

5.1

Girls at Arms

Aug 20, 1975

A comedy about girls joining the army in Denmark. Marianne joins to keep up a long family tradition as her brother won't. Both her brother and her boyfriend find her decision difficult to accept.

5.3

Girls at Sea

Sep 16, 1977

Women have joined the military in Denmark but may still not serve in the navy. This makes the lives of the sailors difficult when three women get trapped on board of a navy vessel do to an surprise exercise at sea. Trying to hide the three women leads to comical situations.

5.4

Friends at Arms: On Autumn Exercises

Oct 6, 1961

The old comrades are called up for three weeks of autumn maneuvers. They are usually more interested in beer, girls, and cheerful music, but Sergeant Vældegaard is determined to scrape the civilian rust off the "boys." Their old friends from their days as recruits have remained in the system as platoon leaders and sergeants, respectively, but that does not dampen the fun. In the heat of battle, the schoolteacher finds time to flirt with his Lotte Corps colleague Birthe.