Minesweeper (1943)

★ 5.0 1h 7m IMDb

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

Minesweeper

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Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen as Richard Houston Died 1976 · Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore) was an American film and television actor. He served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps during World War I. After the war, he went to the oil...
Jean Parker
Jean Parker as Mary Smith Died 2005 · Deer Lodge, Montana, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Parker (born Lois Mae Green; August 11, 1915 – November 30, 2005) was an American film and stage actress. She landed her first screen test while still in hi...
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith Died 1962 · Decatur, Texas, USA From Wikipedia Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. (April 26, 1899 – June 6, 1962) was an American actor who appeared in memorable westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and The Comanchero...
Emma Dunn
Emma Dunn as Mom Smith Died 1966 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English character actress on the stage and in motion pictures. Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early te...
Charles D. Brown
Charles D. Brown as Commander Lane Died 1948 · Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA Charles D. Brown was an American stage and screen actor. His Broadway career spanned the years 1911 through 1937, while his film career, that included more than 100 movies, stretched from 1921 to his...
Frank Fenton
Frank Fenton as Lt. Ralph Gilpin Died 1957 · Hartford, Connecticut, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Fenton (Moran) (April 9, 1906 – July 24, 1957) was an American stage, film and television actor. Description above from the Wikipedia Frank Fenton (actor...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 5/10 Jun 26, 2022
Richard Arlen ("Houston/Jim") deserts from the US Navy only to re-enlist (under a pseudonym) after Pearl Harbor is attacked. He is assigned to a minesweeper where he must defuse these lethal obstacles to shipping in the Pacific Ocean. That's the exciting bit. The rest of it is a bog-standard melodrama with him falling for "Mary" (Jean Parker) and engaging is some rather dull sparring with fellow seaman "Nash" (Russell Hayden) for her affections. It's only when "Nash" saves the life of his competitor that "Lieut. Gilpin" (Frank Fenton) discovers some flaws with Arlen's backstory and our would-be hero, facing some precarious scenarios at home and at sea, considers doing yet another runner before he rallies to participate in a final deadly mission. The action bits at sea are quite interesting - it's not often we see anything from this wartime perspective; but the acting here is pretty ordinary and the melodramatic elements with the overly contrived plot make for a quite an unnecessarily convoluted story that I found quite boring after a while. As my year 7 school report card might have said -"Could do better"

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