I don't think your correct. If you watch some of the other scenes in clips you will see some of the crew playing small parts in speaking roles. I was on the Saint Paul as a Fire Control Technician when they filmed this movie and recognize a few of the guys in the various scenes. Not friends but crew members I recognize. I was only on the ship for 6 months as a short timer when the destroyer I had been on was headed to Viet Nam and I didn't have enough time left so they put me on the Saint Paul. I was discharged in November 1964 at North Island, San Diego. I was above the flying bridge with a couple of friends looking down when they were filming the scene when John Wayne was all bandaged up and we were talking very quietly but Otto Preminger heard us and yelled for us to shut up. Oops, sorry!

@@jimfrits334 great story! I heard Otto preminger was a mean bastard

@@mr.zondide2746 “Curtains would do wonders for this place. You will not be getting them!” Otto Preminger is Stalg 17

Thanks for this wonderful post! John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara...they don't come any better than them, and never will.

That, dear boy, is called acting! (To be read with a posh English accent)

Was that a Ford Mutt they arrived in?

Now that's attention to detail, great find.

Well, that just killed the whole movie for me. Now don't give us any spoilers and tell us who won the war.

I only watched because I was waiting for some chow!

To a civie, anything with a gun is a 'battleship'.

I was wondering about that. TY for posting.

I think it was Burgess Meredith that said it was nice of them to send you your old cruiser, but an old battleship would have been nicer. Or words to that effect. In Harm's Way is one of my all time favorite films.

In real life he'd probably have had one of the Northamptons or one of the early New Orleans Class Cruisers, I'd like to think he'd have one of those ships, then when they stuck the ole peg leg on him, give him a CruRon of Clevelands and Baltimores.

It's a Starship....

Dang beat me to it. It was a heavy Cruiser. I believe they used A Brooklyn Class Cruiser for the part.

I agree.

I thought he said or mouthed “Aces High!”

Yeah I totally agree.

But then he later had a successful career as Rocky Balboa's trainer.

And Archie Bunker I who thought was in the army fighting th I talians.

Tom B - Meathead told Archie once that Arch saw action in WW 2 as he went off to fight the Germans at Fort Dix.

@@jameshoran8 In another episode, Archie describes being assigned to an airbase in Italy and getting shelled one time.

I love this movie, but I think for emotional impact The Cowboys(Dir. Mark rydell 1972. ) get's it done for me. Love that movie.

You sound like a girl.

Yes, the MB series Jeep of WWII had vertical bars in the grill, a more squared hood, and a windshield frame with square corners. This is definitely an M151.

@@schmidt60410 um the m38 is korean war.

@@brianbranson2306 You're right but the MB had the same features as the M38 anyway. That was an M151 series jeep in the movie.

That's because it doesn't draw any extra attention. The guy was having a conversation with the other officers around his table when the room was called to attention. This wasn't a blooper.

AAAH kinda like everything is a Tiger...some people don't know.

@Kip Kruse yes I took that same exam when I was 5 and remembered it through the years. Just look at the number on the Jeep. It reads T5503. Everybody knows in 1941jeeps had a P prefix with three numbers

Ok, so where is the seaplane and it's catapult? All ships of this class had them till they were replaced with helicopters in the 1950's.

@@keithstudly6071 yes, I noticed that several years ago but if you look at the camera angle it is faced over the port bow and catapults were angled 60 degrees to the left then when the camera moved down and to the left the catapult gear dropped out of the picture

lavern007 Was about to say the same thing.😂😂

all ships of war are technically battleships.. there are also classes of battleships called a battleship ahahhaha

@Orn Gorn Kirk's character had to go out that way. It took me twenty years to figure that out after my parents had taken me to see In Harm's Way back in '65. The adult themes went way over my nine year-old head when I first watched that movie. It's one of my all-time favorites now.

Orn Gorn John Wayne kept the acting restrained as he was suffering from undiagnosed lung cancer, it was found after the film was finished. Also only someone who has never been to sea would call all combatant vessels as “battle ships”. I don’t need to be a smart ass myself I spent 30yrs in the Navy and commanded destroyers and frigates. I would NEVER refer to either as a “battle ship”. To do so would invite confusion and ridicule.

@Orn Gorn As a "tin can" sailor, I know the difference between a battleship and a destroyer. Only a liberal news idiot would call them both battleships. So...are you really Brian Williams?

Um, look through the comments. People have been mentioning the jeep for the last couple of years.

Something similar happened in "North By Northwest" in the scene at the Mount Rushmore center. Seconds before a shot was fired, a little boy sitting at a table covered his ears.

Good German tires on an American jeep during WWII. 🤦‍♂️😲😳🤣

@@BA-gn3qb Umm.. Michelin's are French, are they not?

@@chefduane3742 It's not a WW2-era Jeep, or even Korean war era, but a M151 MUTT from the 60's when this was filmed. I saw that in the thumbnail, and being a Jeep guy, thought that was the blooper...

@@chefduane3742 - After the spring of 1940, and until France was liberated, it was under German control.

@@BA-gn3qb Ah, I see. But even if the Vichy Government controlled France, they would still be French Michelin Tires, eh? Albeit manufactured in a French facility by Frenchmen under German control. A minor point...

On deck please.

"Attention On The Deck," would be the correct phrase.

The “extra” beats a striking resemblance to the director Otto Preminger.

attention on deck is yelled by the first person who first notices the entrance of the superior...this man is facing away from the door, it’s unlikely that he would see first...I think the aid de camp would have opened the door for The superior officer and strongly announce Attention on deck! Dennis Rm3 USN. 63-67...

@@denniscorcoran6391 I worked for a Marine General at one time who avoided doing that, to see if people were paying attention. I used to post myself so I could be the first person to see him come in and then, in the Army method, yell, "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Commanding General."

I was wondering. Thank Gary.

Love him in this role.

@Douglas Davis Meathead

>>Shall we adjorn to the war room, Admiral?"

They were flying a fire engine red Catalina from John Wayne Airport in the late 90's, early 2000's. Was a treat watching it take off on 'fire duty'!

Oh yeah, that was great.

Ya go with what ya got. Probably impossible to get 1940s jeeps in 1965. Hell, a jeep is a jeep is a jeep.....

@@joeydepalmer4457 Yeah, we drove jeeps, too, of course. I can't recall right now off the top of my head what the nomenclature of my jeep was, but it certainly was not a WW2 vehicle. I thought it was an M151, but that's what they were saying was a Vietnam-era model, so now I don't remember what I drove. I drove it for a while, there in 1984.

1tired citizen- Lol... They probably caught it accidentally one day. Still, once you see it, it's impossible to un-see. The extra was probably reacting that way due to multiple takes of that one scene.

I think it was Gary Verderamo.

Yeah...it looked coincidental. Also he may have been beginning to silent mutter something like extras are usually asked to do.

@@mhaight I read lips and it looks like said “oh oh I’m gonna fart”

Now that one in North by Northwest was Funny!