Minesweeper
DANGER AFLOAT! ABOVE, BELOW AND ACROSS THE SEAS...WITH THE HEROIC MEN OF THE COAST GUARD!
1943 | 67m | English
Popularity: 0.8 (history)
| Director: | William Berke |
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| Writer: | Maxwell Shane, Edward T. Lowe Jr. |
| Staring: |
| A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 10, 1943 |
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| Director: | William Berke |
| Writer: | Maxwell Shane, Edward T. Lowe Jr. |
| Genres: | Adventure, Action, Drama, Romance, War |
| Keywords | navy, minesweeper |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 08, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Richard Arlen | Richard Houston |
| Jean Parker | Mary Smith |
| Guinn "Big Boy" Williams | CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith |
| Emma Dunn | Mom Smith |
| Charles D. Brown | Commander Lane |
| Frank Fenton | Lt. Ralph Gilpin |
| Chick Chandler | Seaman 'Corny' Welch |
| Douglas Fowley | Cutter Lieutenant Wells |
| Robert Mitchum | Seaman Chuck Ryan |
| Ralph Sanford | Seaman Cox |
| Billy Nelson | Bos'un 'Freshwater' Heims |
| Dub Taylor | Seaman Stubby Gordon |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Maxwell Shane | Screenplay |
| William Berke | Director |
| Edward T. Lowe Jr. | Screenplay |
| Edward F. Mull | Assistant Director |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Trending Position
Richard Arlen ("Houston/Jim") deserts from the US Navy only to re-enlist (under a pseudonym) after Pearl Harbor is attacked. He is assigned to a minesweeper where he must defuse these lethal obstacles to shipping in the Pacific Ocean. That's the exciting bit. The rest of it is a bog-standard melodra ... ma with him falling for "Mary" (Jean Parker) and engaging is some rather dull sparring with fellow seaman "Nash" (Russell Hayden) for her affections. It's only when "Nash" saves the life of his competitor that "Lieut. Gilpin" (Frank Fenton) discovers some flaws with Arlen's backstory and our would-be hero, facing some precarious scenarios at home and at sea, considers doing yet another runner before he rallies to participate in a final deadly mission. The action bits at sea are quite interesting - it's not often we see anything from this wartime perspective; but the acting here is pretty ordinary and the melodramatic elements with the overly contrived plot make for a quite an unnecessarily convoluted story that I found quite boring after a while. As my year 7 school report card might have said -"Could do better"