Don't Go Near the Water (DVD)

They also serve who only sit and type! Hollywood brought audiences to atten-hut! In the 1950s and '60s with a string of military comedies like Mr. Roberts, Operation Petticoat, Ensign Pulver, No Time for Sergeants and this splash into the typing pool of dry-land sailors, a Navy publicity team in the World War II Pacific. Glenn Ford, who appeared in a fistful of the era's service comedies, stars as a lieutenant with a knack for PR activities like placating big shots, calming romantic waters, deflating puffed up journalists and puffing a profane mouthed gob into the public's idea of the perfect enlisted man. Also in the large, shipshape cast: Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn and Mickey Shaughnessy.

Starring: Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark, Howard Smith, Romney Brent, Mary Wickes, Jack Straw, Robert Nichols, Eva Gabor, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards, Mickey Shaughnessy, John Alderson, Jack Albertson, Charles Watts, Julian Rivero, Ike Gibson, Don Burnett, Jerado de Cordovier, Maiola Kalili, King Kong, Hugh Boswell, Tom Mayton, Wilson Wood, Dick Gardner, John Dennis, Steve Warren, William O. Joyce, Gregg Martell, John L. Cason, Paul Bryar, Audrey Swanson, Mike Steen, Lowell Brown

Director: Lawrence Weingarten