Main Cast: Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter, Gina Lollobrigida, Mylène Demongeot
Release Year: 1968
Country: US
Run Time: 92 minutes
Plot
O'Farrell (Bob Hope) is a navy sergeant who tries to boost the moral of the men by bringing in a shipment of beer. When the beer turns up missing, he calls an all-out search for the suds. In the process, O'Farrell captures a Japanese submarine single-handedly and tries to pilot the boat to safety. Phyllis Diller stars as the nurse who does absolutely nothing for troop moral in this uneven and poorly conceived comedy. Gina Lollobrigida and Jeffrey Hunter also star in the feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Robert Kinoshita - Art Director, Oscar Rodriguez - Costume Designer, Kurt Neumann - First Assistant Director, Frank Tashlin - Director, Edna Warren - Editor, Harry Sukman - Composer (Music Score), Mike Moschella - Makeup, Alan Stensvold - Cinematographer, John Beck - Producer, Fred R. Price - Set Designer, Charles Spurgeon - Special Effects, Harold Lewis - Sound/Sound Designer, Robert M. Fresco - Screen Story, John L. Greene - Screen Story, Frank Tashlin - Screenwriter
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell is a 1968 film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bob Hope. It was filmed in Puerto Rico in 1967.
Plot summary
Sgt. O'Farrell is a G.I. on an island somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II, bemoaning the consequences of a ship torpedoed while ferrying to the island a desperately needed cargo of beer.
Among his problems are the Navy personnel making life difficult for himself and his Army buddies, an officer trying to emulate John Paul Jones, a hoped-for delivery of morale-boosting nurses turning out to be six males and the ugliest woman (Diller) ever to wilt a bouquet of flowers, and a Japanese soldier who's hiding from everyone else ... and hiding something else as well.
