Strictly cornball stuff.
I went through training at San Diego and the only realism between basic training and this film are the background shots actually filmed at the San Diego base.
The story is a contrived bit of nonsense about three recruits (WILLIAM T. ORR, GEORGE REEVES and HERBERT ANDERSON), who are supervised by Chief Petty Officer ROBERT ARMSTRONG.
Predictably, Orr--who wants to see the ocean badly--gets seasick on his first outing on a boat--and the others are standard stock characters. Anderson is a guy who memorized the color chart (he's color blind) so he could enter the service. Reeves is your All-American boy.
Most of it is on the light side, played for laughs, and it was probably used as a good recruiting film for the U.S. Navy at the time. Excellent color photography and some good glimpses of guys undergoing physical training--but the story is sheer nonsense.
Worth a look if you're interested in training films but not much else can be said about it. The actors do well enough with sub-standard material.
I went through training at San Diego and the only realism between basic training and this film are the background shots actually filmed at the San Diego base.
The story is a contrived bit of nonsense about three recruits (WILLIAM T. ORR, GEORGE REEVES and HERBERT ANDERSON), who are supervised by Chief Petty Officer ROBERT ARMSTRONG.
Predictably, Orr--who wants to see the ocean badly--gets seasick on his first outing on a boat--and the others are standard stock characters. Anderson is a guy who memorized the color chart (he's color blind) so he could enter the service. Reeves is your All-American boy.
Most of it is on the light side, played for laughs, and it was probably used as a good recruiting film for the U.S. Navy at the time. Excellent color photography and some good glimpses of guys undergoing physical training--but the story is sheer nonsense.
Worth a look if you're interested in training films but not much else can be said about it. The actors do well enough with sub-standard material.