A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
John McGuire
- James Bayless
- (as John Maguire)
Stanley Andrews
- Judge Advocate
- (uncredited)
George Blagoi
- U-Boat Captain
- (uncredited)
Sven Hugo Borg
- U-Boat First Officer
- (uncredited)
Egon Brecher
- U-Boat Commander
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaAccording to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, this movie marked the first use of the new RKO radio signal trademark that spelled "VICTORY". The signal in previous films spelled out "RKO".
- GoofsThe crew inadvertently receives an uncoded voice transmission from a German supply ship indicating its destination. In fact, German supply ships were sent to meet U-boats at prearranged meeting locations by German headquarters back in Europe using coded messages. Therefore, the crew should never have understood the transmission. Since this movie was filmed during the war, these facts were likely unknown at the time.
- Quotes
Chief Michael 'Mike' Mallory: Tell me, how is it a Cuban hotfoot like you comes all the way over here to join the United States Navy?
Pat Tarriba: Well, the United States helped to make Cuba free; so, I come here to free the United States.
- Crazy creditsTHE NAVY COMES THROUGH has been such an established fact that it is now taken for granted. As a result we do not realize that the backbone of the Navy is not ships, planes and submarines - - BUT MEN.
- ConnectionsEdited from Suicide Fleet (1931)
- SoundtracksColumbia, the Gem of the Ocean
(1843)
Written by David T. Shaw
Arranged by Thomas A. Beckett
Variations in the score during the opening credits and as background music
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Two Navy Guys With History
Pat O'Brien and George Murphy play a couple of Navy guys with some bad history between them. When Murphy was an officer, O'Brien testified against him and got him busted out of the service. After Pearl Harbor Murphy enlists as an ordinary seaman and as it is in these films, he's assigned to O'Brien's gunnery crew. The two also have Jane Wyatt who is O'Brien's sister and who Murphy was going out with also as part of their history.
Which is assigned to a merchant marine ship to defend it from enemy attack. If you remember in Action In The North Atlantic such a Navy gun crew was assigned to Humphrey Bogart's and Raymond Massey's vessel in that film.
So far it's the normal run of World War II flag wavers, but after they're at sea, the plot goes totally off the charts. Jane Wyatt is a Navy nurse now and she's on the ship tending to the wounded. And a German speaking member of their crew gets a vital piece of information and has captain Ray Collins and O'Brien diverting the merchant vessel from its course on a mission all its own.
Other members of the cast and part of O'Brien's gun crew are eager kid Jackie Cooper, career Navy man Max Baer, Desi Arnaz who came up from Cuba to fight, Carl Esmond who was the German speaking man and a former musician, and Frank Jenks the obligatory guy from Brooklyn whose main concern is getting a radio transmission of the Dodgers game.
I can't go into the incredible ridiculousness of the plot except to say it involves our guys attempting to sabotage Admiral Doenitz's fleet of U=Boats all by themselves. You have to see it to believe it.
The Navy Comes Through with some interesting and colorful performances which is the main reason to see the film as well as some nice special effects from RKO which got an Academy Award nomination has not held up well over the years. Did the American movie-going public really buy this stuff even then?
Which is assigned to a merchant marine ship to defend it from enemy attack. If you remember in Action In The North Atlantic such a Navy gun crew was assigned to Humphrey Bogart's and Raymond Massey's vessel in that film.
So far it's the normal run of World War II flag wavers, but after they're at sea, the plot goes totally off the charts. Jane Wyatt is a Navy nurse now and she's on the ship tending to the wounded. And a German speaking member of their crew gets a vital piece of information and has captain Ray Collins and O'Brien diverting the merchant vessel from its course on a mission all its own.
Other members of the cast and part of O'Brien's gun crew are eager kid Jackie Cooper, career Navy man Max Baer, Desi Arnaz who came up from Cuba to fight, Carl Esmond who was the German speaking man and a former musician, and Frank Jenks the obligatory guy from Brooklyn whose main concern is getting a radio transmission of the Dodgers game.
I can't go into the incredible ridiculousness of the plot except to say it involves our guys attempting to sabotage Admiral Doenitz's fleet of U=Boats all by themselves. You have to see it to believe it.
The Navy Comes Through with some interesting and colorful performances which is the main reason to see the film as well as some nice special effects from RKO which got an Academy Award nomination has not held up well over the years. Did the American movie-going public really buy this stuff even then?
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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By what name was The Navy Comes Through (1942) officially released in Canada in English?
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