Stand By For Action, Stand By For Action, DVD
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All Titles, Bea Nigro, Ben Welden, Billy Bletcher, Brian Donlevy, Byron Foulger, Calvin Emery, Charles Laughton, Chill Wills, Dick Simmons, Disc on Demand, Douglas Dumbrille, Douglas Fowley, Douglas Wood, Douglass Dumbrille, Duke York, Elizabeth Russell, Ernie Alexander, Frank Hagney, Frank Whitbeck, George Bruce, Hal Le Sueur, Harry Fleischmann, Harry Wilson, Henry O'Neill, Herman Mankiewicz, Hobart Cavanaugh, Inez Cooper, James Davis, James Millican, John L. Balderston, Lennie Hayton, Marilyn Maxwell, Marta Linden, Military & War, Movies, Movies & TV › Movies, Orville O. Dull, Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian, Pat West, Ralph McCullough, Richard Quine, Robert Kent, Robert Taylor, Robert Z. Leonard, Spec O'Donnell, Stand By For Action, Theodor Von Eltz, Tim Ryan, Wally Cassell, Walter Brennan, War Drama, Warner Archive, Will Armstrong, William Roberts, William TannenNot long after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. scrambles for ships to put to sea - ships like the dry-docked WWI destroyer Warren. An "old Noah's Ark," scoffs Lt. Gregg Masterman (Robert Taylor), a Harvard-schooled Bostonian ensconced in a cushy desk job. Care to guess who will be volunteered to be the aged ship's executive officer? the character of a callow young man who ultimately proves his worth is one Taylor had played before, notably in a Yank at Oxford and Flight Command. A stellar cast - Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan - joins him in a tale that veers into comic waters (the crew become awkward caretakers of a bevy of infants rescued at sea) before steaming full ahead into the strategies and salvos of fiery battle action in the Pacific. Taylor would actually serve as a Navy Air Corps flight instructor during the war. Lovely Marilyn Maxwell, who debuts here, would entertain troops as a member of Bob Hope's USO tours.