Main Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh, Dorothy Tree
Release Year: 1934
Country: US
Run Time: 86 minutes
Plot
Actually this film should have been titled "Here Comes Jimmy Cagney Again, so Duck!". James Cagney is a bantam-cock sailor who runs up against chief petty officer Pat O'Brien. Seems that Cagney and O'Brien had come to blows early in the film when O'Brien stole Cagney's date at a dance hall. O'Brien resents both Cagney and Cagney's attentions towards O'Brien's sister (Gloria Stuart). The animosity intensifies when O'Brien court-martials Cagney for going AWOL. But all passions are spent when Cagney heroically rescues his shipmates from a raging fire. Here Comes the Navy proved to Jimmy Cagney's fans that he could still deliver the goods even with the tighter movie censorship imposed in 1934. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Esdras Hartley - Art Director, Com. Herbert A. Jones - Consultant/advisor, Orry-Kelly - Costume Designer, Orry Kelly - Costume Designer, Lloyd Bacon - Director, George J. Amy - Editor, Leo F. Forbstein - Musical Direction/Supervision, Sammy Fain - Songwriter, Irving Kahal - Songwriter, Perc Westmore - Makeup, Arthur Edeson - Cinematographer, Louis Edelman - Producer, Earl W. Baldwin - Screenwriter, Ben Markson - Screenwriter
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Of historical interest is that a portion of the filming took place aboard the battleship Arizona, which was sunk by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. Further, portions of the film also include shots of the dirigibleMacon, a year before the accident that destroyed the dirigible with the loss of two crew.
