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Hollywood is known for riddling military movies with technical errors, but from “Full Metal Jacket” to “Stripes,” the movie industry gets it right with plenty of quotable military movies. Here are WATM’s picks for 32 of the best ever: 1. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
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#1. “I had to choose between her and the boat, she said. Any sailor will know it is a lot more difficult to get a new boat than a new wife, so I bought her a one-way ticket back to Norway.”― Peter Tangvald #2.“Out of sight of land, the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.” ― Charles Davis #3. “A rough day at sea is still better than...
#11. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”― Leonardo da Vinci: #12. “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ― Robin Lee Graham #13. “The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid and avoids the storm he cannot weather.”― Ano...
#21. “The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.”― Annie Van De Wiele #22. “To reach a port, we must set sail. Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift.”― Franklin D. Roosevelt #23. “The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.”― Edmund Gibbon #24. “It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures ...
#31. “There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ‘em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you getaway or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at...
Francis in the Navy: Directed by Arthur Lubin. With Donald O'Connor, Martha Hyer, Richard Erdman, Jim Backus. A story following Lieutenant Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) and his dream of being in the Navy.
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- Comedy, Fantasy
- Arthur Lubin
- 1955-08-24
Francis in the Navy is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Francis in the Navy is 80 minutes long. Francis in the Navy is distributed by Universal-International.
- I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.
- This ship is built to fight. You had better know how. Arleigh Burke. Fighting, Ships, Know How.
- There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck.
- The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood. Albert F. Pratt. Country, Jobs, Blood.
Francis in the Navy is a 1955 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Stanley Rubin and directed by Arthur Lubin. The film stars Donald O'Connor and Martha Hyer, and marked the first credited film role of Clint Eastwood. [1]
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