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Typical morning at the Dischingers'. A strange young man wanders about in his shorts; he's the Navy ensign whom Daughter Shelby has married after two days' acquaintance. The phone rings; it is Son David explaining that he just drove the family car into the Central Park lake. In the living room their parents are doing their radio show live; they must pretend that domestic crises are stopped at the door, like tieless men trying to get into "21." After all, Princess Grace is going to call any minute now from Monaco for an "eggsglusive" interview...
...grow to hate each other effortlessly. As much as Foley demeans the trainee. Mayo feels compelled to struggle on, to prove to himself more than anyone else that he can outlast his opponent When the two part company at film's end. Ensign Mayo concedes without emotion that he wouldn't have persevered without Foley's reverse-psychology butt-kicking. Gosset draws his lips into a by-now familiar tight line and hisses. "Get the fuck out of here...
...course of the Royal Navy paralleled that of the empire. In World War I. Britain still ruled the waves. A fleet of 1,350 vessels, including 42 battleships and battle cruisers, flew the service's white ensign. In World War II, the navy continued to be a magnificent fighting force. By V-J day in 1945, Britain had twelve major aircraft carriers, 14 battleships, 50 cruisers, 182 destroyers, 226 frigates and 97 submarines-a fleet of 586 vessels, second only to the U.S.'s total...
...after bumming around the last B-movie lot in Hollywood at 20th Century Fox (and having a bit role in the atrocious sequel to Mister Roberts, Ensign Pulver, a purported A-movie), he and director Monte Hellman took the B-unit to the Phillipines and made Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury. The low-budget films had strictly limited aspirations, and still failed to fulfill them. So the dynamic duo turned to the latest craze, The Western; Nicholson wrote Ride the Whirlwind and Adrien Joyce penned The Shooting; filmed simultaneously on the Utah desert, neither was ever released...
...Ensign Pulver (1964) d. Joshua Logan...