Mister Roberts Comments

  • Janelle 2022-10-03 20:31:20

    Simply titled the "comedy version of the Renegade Kane", although the general direction is correct, but it is not enough to reflect the difficulty of the style change-there is a more obvious internal conflict between "happy" and "rebellious" emotions. The film's control of this problem is not particularly successful. Lemmon and the crew played too much hilariously, weakening the hostility between Chief Mate Da and Captain Cagney at the top of the main line. ...Ford retired halfway through his...

  • Dolores 2022-10-03 19:46:10

    I have always been unable to like HF, but many business cards have asked him to be the male one, all kinds of forbearance. . . ....

  • Vaughn 2022-10-03 15:34:42

    Jack Claremont mentioned in the documentary that he didn't recognize the director Ford on the set, and as a result, he successfully got the role of Pulver. I always feel that the rhythm is a bit slow, and the effect is better if you laugh faster and more densely (somehow because Cagney thinks of the beautiful lady and Billy...

  • Keagan 2022-10-03 11:52:27

    Cast is worthy of worship, William Powell's last film, Jack Lemmon Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, his performance is as funny as electrocution, Henry Fonda's final ending is the only and most profound tragedy element, Lemmon then throws the palm tree in In the sea, he yelled at Captain Cagney, and made people laugh, as if Henry had come back from the dead, and there was someone to succeed him. It was a super exciting wartime tragicomedy. ....

Extended Reading

Mister Roberts quotes

  • Doc: That's mostly what makes physical heroism - opportunity. It's a reflex. I think that seventy-five out of a hundred young males have that reflex. You take any one of them. Say even Frank Thurlowe Pulver, here. Put him into a B-29 over Japan, and you know what you'd have?

    Lt. j.g. Douglas A. Roberts: No I don't, Doctor.

    Doc: You'd have Pulver, the Congressional Medal of Honor winner. Pulver, who single-handed shot down twenty-three attacking Zeros. Pulver who, with his bare hands, held together the severed wing struts of his plane, and with his bare feet successfully landed his mortally wounded plane on his home field. Reflex. It's like the knee jerk. Strike the patella tendon in any human being, you produce the knee jerk. Look.

    [Doc hits Pulver in the knee and nothing happens]

    Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver: What's the matter, Doc?

    Doc: Nothing, but stay out of B-29s, Frank, my boy.

  • Lt. j.g. Douglas A. Roberts: Captain, you told me...

    The Captain: Never mind what I told you. *I'm telling you!*