Mister Roberts 12/12/20
The Warner Archive Collection
Blu-ray
This adapted Broadway play may be considered minor John Ford moviemaking, and some sources say he had to drop out before he could film very much of it. But what’s on the screen pleased audiences primed for the first wave of WW2 nostalgia. The story of cargo officer Henry Fonda’s one-man war against his Bligh-like Captain James Cagney had all of us ’50s kids asking dad if the war really was like that. James Cagney steals the show while stars William Powell, Betsy Palmer and Ward Bond make their marks. Young Jack Lemmon debuts the basic character he’d play for the next fifteen years and wins an Oscar for his trouble. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.
12/12/20