The Neptune bar where John Baggs Jr (James Caan) finds his great love Maggie Paul (Marsha Mason) must be a bad place for the us-Navy while the superior officer of John Baggs prohibits his marriage with Maggie when she is pregnant. There is also a background of social security for the illegitimate child: that when married the couple has some advantages in the Navy. A special scene is the one where the surgeon Dr. Osgood (Fred Sadoff) treats the son of Maggie, Doug (Kirk Calloway) for his teeth without being a dentist! It is rather impossible that there can be a switch of identity as happens between John Baggs and Lynn Forshay ( Eli Wallach). On the other hand it shows that a sailor remains always a sailor and that it is after all a better job than attracting other seamen to the Chinese brothels. John Baggs has a special relation with the Cook (Ted D'Arms) and with the Master of Arms (Burt Young) who help him out of some difficult situations. This movie shows us the problems of sailors being a long time away from home with all the consequences: bad marriage, illegitimate children, loneliness and alcoholism.
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