I know the LT.Commander Wendell Eugene Lemon, that's the man who said Attention Gentleman! He is my great uncle and was very proud to be the only person on board the USS SAINT PAUL (CA-73) to have a speaking part. He played Bridge with the Duke, Burgess Meredith & Carroll O'Connor every night.Great movie!
@jimfrits3346 жыл бұрын
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!
@mr.zondide27463 жыл бұрын
@@jimfrits334 great story! I heard Otto preminger was a mean bastard
@darwinawardcommittee2 жыл бұрын
@@mr.zondide2746 “Curtains would do wonders for this place. You will not be getting them!” Otto Preminger is Stalg 17
@cmdaes2 жыл бұрын
One thing that strikes me is that John Wayne never had any real-life experience of the kind of roles he played most (cattle rancher, lawman or military guy). Yet he was quite convincing in all of them. He was the ultimate American, tough and no nonsense, but good hearted and with a sense of humour. And even shy in a old school macho way. Spitfire redhead Maureen O'Hara, another great actor, was his perfect counterpart and buddy. I love them both, God bless them!
@tonigarguilo9510 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this wonderful post! John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara...they don't come any better than them, and never will.
@JonSmith-cx7gr Жыл бұрын
That, dear boy, is called acting! (To be read with a posh English accent)
@tualatindave37973 жыл бұрын
My dad was stationed at Hickam AFB when this was being filmed. I was a young boy, and was fishing off a dock on the Hickam side of the channel. I noticed a planes flying over, then heard explosions. I swear they air-brushed me out from that dock, because I remember the ship sailing out from Pearl and it went right by me. To think, I almost made it in a John Wayne movie. :-)
@bluemarshall61804 жыл бұрын
But it should be..... "Attention on Deck". 😆
@TheJer19633 жыл бұрын
Filmed aboard the USS ST. Paul CA-73. My father served aboard her and the USS Los Angles CA-135 during World War 2.
@gerry3435 жыл бұрын
The spare tire at 0:06 was only inflated to 18psi, it should have been 22.
@timorvet13 жыл бұрын
Was that a Ford Mutt they arrived in?
@briangulley60273 жыл бұрын
Now that's attention to detail, great find.
@randyjordan55213 жыл бұрын
Well, that just killed the whole movie for me. Now don't give us any spoilers and tell us who won the war.
@RaoulThomas0073 жыл бұрын
I only watched because I was waiting for some chow!
@roymiller13373 жыл бұрын
John Wayne's character did not command a battleship, as the poster states. He commanded a heavy cruiser.
@JG-tt4sz2 жыл бұрын
To a civie, anything with a gun is a 'battleship'.
@tommytar1233 жыл бұрын
The ship was not a battleship. It was a "swayback" heavy cruiser.
@capnbobretired3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering about that. TY for posting.
@michaelmcchesney66453 жыл бұрын
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.
@TEGRULZ3 жыл бұрын
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.
@bluemarshall61802 жыл бұрын
It's a Starship....
@coleparker2 жыл бұрын
Dang beat me to it. It was a heavy Cruiser. I believe they used A Brooklyn Class Cruiser for the part.
@scottsatterthwaite40733 жыл бұрын
There are a lot of little blunders in this movie. Some I give up to artistic license but some stem from ignorance. Example; there is a protocol to be followed when military members enter/exit any vessel, vehicle, or building.
@thos.bennett5673 жыл бұрын
The correct words "Attention On Deck!" The senior officer states either as you were or at ease.
@nuancolar73043 жыл бұрын
The guy was merely conversing, just like everyone else in the room. He wasn't saying "attention gentlemen."
@imalt82713 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@RaoulThomas0073 жыл бұрын
I thought he said or mouthed “Aces High!”
@brians95082 жыл бұрын
Yeah I totally agree.
@jimmymac633 жыл бұрын
I knew it, The Penguin was in the Navy before trying to thwart the do good efforts of Batman and Robin!
@randyjordan55213 жыл бұрын
But then he later had a successful career as Rocky Balboa's trainer.
@tomb45753 жыл бұрын
And Archie Bunker I who thought was in the army fighting th I talians.
@jameshoran83 жыл бұрын
Tom B - Meathead told Archie once that Arch saw action in WW 2 as he went off to fight the Germans at Fort Dix.
@odysseusrex59083 жыл бұрын
@@jameshoran8 In another episode, Archie describes being assigned to an airbase in Italy and getting shelled one time.
@wramsey26563 жыл бұрын
The extra was really clairvoyant lol!
@elizabethconnolly89584 жыл бұрын
Who cares it's a great movie with the Duke that's all that matters Rip John Wayne xx
@mhaight3 жыл бұрын
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.
@UltradogMN2 жыл бұрын
You sound like a girl.
@jeffburnham66112 жыл бұрын
He wasn't speaking the lines like you suggest, but he was talking to the person off camera directly across from him, as you would find in a wardroom setting. I'm guessing you never served in the military, been in a classroom having a conversation with your buddies when an officer walked in and someone called the room to attention.
@mjcruiser42383 жыл бұрын
Great movie -probably have seen it a dozen times over the years
@SootHead3 жыл бұрын
Another blooper... they are driving a '60s era M-151 MUTT "jeep."
@schmidt604103 жыл бұрын
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.
@brianbranson23063 жыл бұрын
@@schmidt60410 um the m38 is korean war.
@schmidt604103 жыл бұрын
@@brianbranson2306 You're right but the MB had the same features as the M38 anyway. That was an M151 series jeep in the movie.
@jerrypolverino60254 жыл бұрын
Somebody is real sharp and pays attention to detail. Well done.
@sadalite Жыл бұрын
Good catch!
@johnsimpson61815 жыл бұрын
His former ship was a heavy cruiser, not a battleship.
@Buck19543 жыл бұрын
As many times as I've watched this movie in my 66 years, I've never paid any attention to this guy. You won't find those old time professional actors missing their lines.
@jeffburnham66112 жыл бұрын
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.
@doncarlton48583 жыл бұрын
The extras were crew members of the USS Saint Paul and the Destroyer that played USS Cassidy. The Final Countdown was shot the same way on the Nimitz.
@HollywoodGraham2 жыл бұрын
I was on Saint Paul when it was filmed. 5 days over to Pearl 3 days in port then 5 days back. Great week end.
@southronjr15703 жыл бұрын
Slight correction, in the movie, he returns to his old cruiser, not battleship.
@BillieBobBrubeck3 жыл бұрын
AAAH kinda like everything is a Tiger...some people don't know.
@mr.zondide27463 жыл бұрын
If you look closely I found this a long time ago, there are flush head bolts connecting the handrail to the deck, in 1941 ships all used regular 1/8 bolts on stairways. Also the rubber treads used on the deck plating are black, before 1956 all ship is used light grey rubber treads. Also the tables in the wardroom are lengthwise from the doorway, the bureau of ships in 1940 mandated all wardroom tables be horizontal to the entrance
@mr.zondide27463 жыл бұрын
@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
@keithstudly60713 жыл бұрын
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.
@mr.zondide27463 жыл бұрын
@@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
@roadsidediner-video27923 жыл бұрын
One other blooper is that when you set up the clip you called Admiral Torrey's ship a Battleship. It wasn't a battleship, it was a heavy Cruiser.
@towdjumper53 жыл бұрын
Great stuff thanks for sharing
@rogerringer70663 жыл бұрын
Driving a Mutt Vietnam era Ford Jeep.
@lavern0076 жыл бұрын
You made a mistake. The "Ole Swayback" was a heavy cruiser and not a battleship. Two very different things.
@thejudgemontanacollector92486 жыл бұрын
lavern007 Was about to say the same thing.😂😂
@johnnyllooddte34155 жыл бұрын
all ships of war are technically battleships.. there are also classes of battleships called a battleship ahahhaha
@TralfazConstruction4 жыл бұрын
@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.
@AMD70273 жыл бұрын
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.
@lavern0073 жыл бұрын
@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?
@sgt.grinch3299 Жыл бұрын
His former Heavy Cruiser, the Swayback.
@mikeking74703 жыл бұрын
And no one commented on the "Jeep"? It's not WW2 vintage, looks like a M151A1 from the middle 60's.
@FIREBRAND383 жыл бұрын
Um, look through the comments. People have been mentioning the jeep for the last couple of years.
@Easy-Eight Жыл бұрын
That WWII Jeep is a 1960s era M151 MUTT. The radiator slats are horizontal, not vertical like on a regular jeep. Willys sued because vertical is trademarked.
@hambone57182 жыл бұрын
Poster made and ERROR too...This also says He arrives on his former battleship. It was a Heavy Cruiser.
@luxdiablo66673 жыл бұрын
Mr. Cleans first acting role.
@garrywood88366 жыл бұрын
I think the same thing happened in a scene in a 50s sci fi movie called 'THE GIANT CLAW
@roadsidediner-video27923 жыл бұрын
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.
@BA-gn3qb3 жыл бұрын
I thought he said "I have to poop." After sitting there over 8 hours waiting for this scene.
@guitarman05513 жыл бұрын
It wasn't a battleship, it was a heavy cruiser, completely different animal than a battleship.
@youtubewest95066 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed a Straw Bottom Cruiser
@TheSaltydog073 жыл бұрын
Great film!
@donaldsiler67796 ай бұрын
The one I never hear people mention is at the end when Henry Fonda goes to the Docked Hospital ship a C-130 is taking off in the background. Not during WWII.
@ariochiv6 жыл бұрын
Someone has an awful lot of spare time on his hands.
@randyjordan55213 жыл бұрын
Funny story about the making of this movie: Director Otto Preminger decided to use miniature ships for some battle scenes to save money. When the cast sat down to watch some of the scenes during production, Kirk Douglas complained "Why, those ships look like miniatures!" Preminger sarcastically replied, "Zat is because zey are."
@chefduane37425 жыл бұрын
Michelin LTX MS2 235/75r/15's on a WWII JEEP? How could the Continuity Director have missed THAT unforgiveable mistake!!??
@BA-gn3qb3 жыл бұрын
Good German tires on an American jeep during WWII. 🤦♂️😲😳🤣
@chefduane37423 жыл бұрын
@@BA-gn3qb Umm.. Michelin's are French, are they not?
@AndrewAMartin3 жыл бұрын
@@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...
@BA-gn3qb3 жыл бұрын
@@chefduane3742 - After the spring of 1940, and until France was liberated, it was under German control.
@chefduane37423 жыл бұрын
@@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...
@JCMC575 жыл бұрын
He could have been answering the guy whos back is to us.
@johnminehan11486 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the extra was a former Sailor or Marine who had to restrain himself from calling "attention of Deck."
@rutabagasteu6 жыл бұрын
On deck please.
@williamanthony90905 жыл бұрын
"Attention On The Deck," would be the correct phrase.
@scottgilbraith25343 жыл бұрын
The “extra” beats a striking resemblance to the director Otto Preminger.
@denniscorcoran63913 жыл бұрын
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...
@johnminehan11483 жыл бұрын
@@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."
@WizzRacing3 жыл бұрын
Poor guy.. You only get paid extra. If you are given lines to speak...
@ronveri28383 жыл бұрын
He arrived on his former cruiser.
@model-man78024 жыл бұрын
Oh by the way,its not a Battleship they are on,its a cruiser.
@billsanders5067 Жыл бұрын
When a senior Naval officer enters a compartment the first person who spots him says "Attention on Deck".
@o-h75673 жыл бұрын
Fact...it was not a battleship as you claim.
@MrSunlander4 жыл бұрын
I was always under the assumption that, given their stiffness, Preminger was using actual crew members and not trained extras for shots like these. It always looked like he was trying to look like he was having a conversation across the table and was interrupted. And, then, I dropped the idea in a flash and watched the rest of this saga.
@GaryVerderamo5 жыл бұрын
Wasn't a battleship. Was a heavy cruiser.
@mhaight3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering. Thank Gary.
@denisetrine30665 жыл бұрын
Heavy Cruiser.
@gchuven2 жыл бұрын
The USS St. Paul was used. Look carefully at the Captain's quarters door in the scene where Rock is introduced.
@nethanelmasters51705 жыл бұрын
The jeep is an M151 didn't inter service until 1958 windshield frame has round corners and the spit glass frame is only on the inside of the windshield. Plus the front grill has horizontal slats instead of vertical ones. The gpw and mb of WW2 all had vertical slats and square corners on the windshield frames with the center brase on both sides of the glass. Add this to the guy lips moving to rhe other actors lines.
@mikevonkleist67674 жыл бұрын
Why the sudden interest in this movie? I used to get the TCM Channel until Xfinity bundled it with a sports package. But I enjoyed all the classic Hollywood movies and this was one that Ted Turner aquired. I've seen it so many times. All star cast. Great screenplay. Otto Preminger directed. Brilliant performance by Kirk Douglas, doing what he did best. Henry Fonda, credited as CINCPAC. Who, after the Pearl Harbor attack, was Nimitz.
@txspyrate44463 жыл бұрын
John Wayne does not board his battleship, it was a heavy cruiser. They say so at least 3 times in the film, twice in the first 15 mins.
@PorkChopJones3 жыл бұрын
I would have never noticed it! Until it was pointed out! But in all fairness troops new when the top brass was coming to the base! Maybe he got tired of waiting and hade date? When the Brass entered the room! He was like damn finally!
@hawaii5-0bloopers62 жыл бұрын
Burgess Meredith is often considered the most famous actor and too famous to be credible in any films as a character.
@PlasmaCoolantLeak Жыл бұрын
Love him in this role.
@shawndgee3 жыл бұрын
Sorry its his past Heavy Cruiser :20 not a battleship.
@gildavis97863 жыл бұрын
The extra looks like John Agar.
@timsparks18584 жыл бұрын
The Duke should of said ..Hang it! Dietrich, Marital situation and the studio. Just join the Navy!..Get on a PT!...Kirk Douglass and Montgomery and JFK were on them. He did 3 months tour in the Pacific for Cmdr.John Ford in '43. I guess that's better than nothing.
@TheRetirednavy922 жыл бұрын
The ship is NOT a Battle ship but a Heavy Cruiser
@kenclark98884 жыл бұрын
He went back to his cruiser. It was not a battleship sir
@WhereMyChicken4 жыл бұрын
"Shall we adjorn to the ward room, Admiral?" said Archie Bunker.
@douggarrett52883 жыл бұрын
@Douglas Davis Meathead
@alexmuenster21023 жыл бұрын
>>Shall we adjorn to the war room, Admiral?"
@hiddenfromhistory1005 жыл бұрын
No, the guy could have been mouthing anything actually
@daveenyart3 жыл бұрын
Yep...not much of a blooper. By the way...his previous ship was, I believe, a heavy cruiser...not a battleship.
@tomcander36692 жыл бұрын
The Swayback was a cruiser in the movie and in real life...not a battleship!
@blindspott1060 Жыл бұрын
Not a battleship...they were all sunk at Pearl. Details count!
@johnfoster5353 жыл бұрын
.....nice to see Archie Bunker fighting the war alongside the "Duke", before settling in to his New York hovel with "Meathead" !!
@ALSmith-zz4yy3 жыл бұрын
Love this movie but it always bothered me that Admiral Torrey arrived at his new posting in a Grumman Albatros which did not enter service until 1949. It's likely he would have used a PBY Catalina but the movie producers claim none were available. That's hard to believe since many were still flying. My theory is it was just easier to go with the Albatros since they were already using lots of other stuff from the Navy for this movie.
@r2gelfand3 жыл бұрын
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'!
@kenp78143 жыл бұрын
Heavy Cruiser not battleship ......
@albertus75166 жыл бұрын
--can’t stop laughing...NOT!
@rhkennerly3 жыл бұрын
Geez, and didn’t comment at all about one of the all-time great seductions between Wayne & Patricia Neil.
@mikeking74703 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, that was great.
@kerrykoontz32994 жыл бұрын
Cruiser, not battleship.
@Goatboysminion5 жыл бұрын
Well whoopie!
@tomcander36693 жыл бұрын
They boarded a cruiser, not a battleship
@Probuilder593 жыл бұрын
Well the jeep he arrived in was used only in Vietnam and overseas and was never street legal in the US. It was called a MUTT. it did not exist in WWII.
@allanpattison3293 жыл бұрын
Torrey 's former ship was a heavy cruiser, not a battleship!
@skydiverclassc20313 жыл бұрын
Has anyone posted about it being a cruiser instead of a battleship? Just wondering is all...
@robertjohnson89383 жыл бұрын
This movie is as old as me
@bobbywoods6843 жыл бұрын
A tad esoteric.
@TTony-tu6dm Жыл бұрын
The ship is not a battleship it’s a heavy cruiser
@williambuttermark5250 Жыл бұрын
Heavy Cruiser not a Battleship
@douglaslally1565 жыл бұрын
Mmmm. Not at all conclusive. Not possible he was just bantering with another extra? Really not convinced he was mouthing the same words.
@mjcruiser42383 жыл бұрын
Anyone have any knowledge as to weather it was a battleship or a cruiser?🧐
@davidcraig97794 жыл бұрын
His 'battleship' is a cruiser.
@nathanduckeorth8063 жыл бұрын
Veit man era jeep in a WW2 MOVIE
@stevenpine19393 жыл бұрын
That was it? HUH!
@joeydepalmer44573 жыл бұрын
sorry did not see a blooper there. what i did see for a blooper was the jeep. a 1960s jeep in a movie about ww2
@joehamlet75762 жыл бұрын
Ya go with what ya got. Probably impossible to get 1940s jeeps in 1965. Hell, a jeep is a jeep is a jeep.....
@joehamlet75762 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@odysseusrex59083 жыл бұрын
Here's a funny blooper in your video, the ship was cruiser, not a battleship.
@1tiredcitizen7966 жыл бұрын
Someone had to go through this movie frame by frame to find this and then be able to read lips. Get a life.
@williamanthony90905 жыл бұрын
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.
@mhaight3 жыл бұрын
I think it was Gary Verderamo.
@davetomlinson9063 Жыл бұрын
Cruiser not a battleship.
@ChefKevinRiese3 жыл бұрын
That's a blooper?
@fliegeroh4 жыл бұрын
Nah, I read lips and he wasn't saying anything. Just opening his mouth.
@mhaight3 жыл бұрын
Yeah...it looked coincidental. Also he may have been beginning to silent mutter something like extras are usually asked to do.
@donnebes94213 жыл бұрын
@@mhaight I read lips and it looks like said “oh oh I’m gonna fart”
@rogerboatwright43003 жыл бұрын
I like this movie but the women’s hairdo’s were from the 60’s not the 40’s which always bugged me but other than that a great movie.
@bamlin525 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter.
@xbubblehead5 жыл бұрын
Or he could have been talking to someone on the other side of the table rather than sitting doing nothing waiting for the entrance.
@ChileMiPais3 жыл бұрын
Kirk Douglas's chin dimple missed its cue.
@joed94914 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was hilarious................not! Next he's going to show us the kid holding his hands to his ears just before the shot is fired in North by Northwest!