McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965)

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G 1 hr 26 minJul 9th, 1965ComedyMcHale's Navy Collection PosterPart of McHale's Navy Collection
The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force.
StarringJoe FlynnTim ConwayBob Hastings
DirectorEdward Montagne
WriterWilliam J. Lederer

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:July 9th, 1965
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Universal Pictures
Movie Tags:
u.s. navy

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 good, either by transfer or court martial. Although they are forever getting into trouble, they (almost always unwittingly) get out of trouble. Despite their scheming, conniving, and often lazy and unmilitary ways, McHale's crew is always successful in combat in the end. The entire show is based on only two locations, one in the South Pacific at a fictional base called Taratupa (the inferred location is in the Solomon Islands) and an equally fictional town in Italy called Voltafiore.