All The Uproarious Fun Of the Smash Broadway Play!
Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
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Classical in form, resolved, effortless and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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“Is Henry Fonda the best thing in Mister Roberts?”
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Cast
- Henry FondaLieutenant Roberts
- James CagneyCaptain Morton
- William PowellDoc
- Jack LemmonFrank Pulver
- Betsy PalmerAnn Girard
- Ward BondDowdy
- Philip CareyMannion
- Nick AdamsReber
- Perry LopezRodrigues
- Ken CurtisDolan
Crew
- John FordDirector
- Mervyn LeRoyDirector
- Joshua LoganScreenplay
- Frank S. NugentScreenplay
- Thomas HeggenNovel
- Winton C. HochDirector of Photography
- Franz WaxmanOriginal Music Composer
- Jack MurrayEditor
- Leland HaywardProducer
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