Editing Here Comes the Navy

{{short description|1934 romantic comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Here Comes the Navy
| image          = Here Comes the Navy poster.jpg

| caption        = [[Film poster|Original film poster]]
| director       = [[Lloyd Bacon]]
| producer       = Louis Edelman
| writer         = [[Earl Baldwin]]<br>[[Ben Markson]]
| starring       = [[James Cagney]]<br>[[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]]<br>[[Gloria Stuart]]
| music          = [[Charles A. Zimmerman]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur Edeson]]
| editing        = [[George Amy]]
| studio         = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]
| distributor    = Warner Bros. Pictures
| released       = {{Film date|1934|07|21}}
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| runtime        = 87 minutes
|budget=$263,000<ref name="warners">Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 15 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</ref>
| gross          = $1,758,000<ref name="warners"/>
}}

'''''Here Comes the Navy''''' (also known as '''''Hey, Sailor''''') is a 1934 American [[romantic comedy]] film written by [[Earl Baldwin]] and Ben Markson and directed by [[Lloyd Bacon]]. The film stars [[James Cagney]], [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]], [[Gloria Stuart]] and [[Frank McHugh]].
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==Plot==
Riveter "Chesty" O'Connor and his best friend "Droopy" join the US Navy to annoy O'Connor's nemesis, [[Chief Petty Officer]] "Biff" Martin. O'Connor gets himself court-martialed for being [[Desertion|AWOL]] while visiting Martin's sister Dorothy. Disgruntled at his treatment, O'Connor angrily derides the Navy and finds himself ostracized by his fellow sailors in the USS ''[[USS Arizona|Arizona]]''.

During gunnery practice, O'Connor puts out a fire in a 14 inch [[gun turret]] and receives the [[Navy Cross]] medal, but is still determined to get out of the Navy. Later, O'Connor transfers to the US Naval Air Service and is assigned to the [[rigid airship]] {{USS|Macon|ZRS-5|6}}. When the ''Macon'' tries to dock, Chief Martin is accidentally caught on a guide rope and is hoisted into the air. {{#tag:ref| The incident mirrored other accidents with ground crew being hoisted up when airships had mooring problems.<ref>Smith 1965, pp. 71, 107.</ref>|group=Note}} Despite orders, O'Connor climbs down the rope and saves Martin's life by parachuting both of them to the ground.

Later, at the wedding of O'Connor to Dorothy, Martin finds out that O'Connor has been promoted to [[Warrant officer (United States)|warrant]] [[boatswain]] and now outranks him.

==Cast==
{{castlist|
* [[James Cagney]] as Chester "Chesty" O'Connor
* [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]] as Chief Petty Officer William "Biff" Martin
* [[Gloria Stuart]] as Dorothy "Dot" Martin
* [[Frank McHugh]] as Wilbur "Droopy" Mullins
* [[Dorothy Tree]] as Gladys
* [[Willard Robertson]] as Lieutenant Commander
* [[Eddie Acuff]] as Marine Orderly
* [[George Irving (American actor)|George Irving]] as Admiral
* [[Sam McDaniel]] as Porter
* [[Fred "Snowflake" Toones]] as Sailor
* [[Niles Welch]] as Officer
* [[Leo White]] as Professor
* [[Howard Hickman]] as Captain
* Chuck Hamilton as Hood at Dance
* [[Eddy Chandler]] as Supply Sergeant
* [[Joseph Crehan]] as Recruiting Officer
* [[Ida Darling]] as Aunt
* [[Edward Earle]] as Navy Chaplain
* [[Maude Eburne]] as Droopy's Ma
* Robert Emmett as Tansey
}}

==Production==
[[Image:James Cagney and Gloria Stuart in Here Comes the Navy trailer.jpg|thumb|left|Cagney with Stuart]]
With the full cooperation of the US Navy, principal photography, which ended early May 1934, took place at a number of naval facilities, including the Bremerton Navy yard, Washington, Naval Training Station, San Diego, California, as well as other locations in San Pedro and Sunnyvale, California.<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/201/here-comes-the-navy#film-details "Original print information: 'Here Comes the Navy' (1934)."]  ''Turner Classic Movies''. Retrieved: May 23, 2015.</ref> Naval personnel made up many of the extras on the film. Of historical interest is that a portion of the filming of ''Here Comes the Navy'' took place aboard the battleship {{USS|Arizona|BB-39|2}}, which was sunk by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, at [[Pearl Harbor]]. Further, portions of the film also include shots of the [[dirigible]] {{USS|Macon|ZRS-5|2}}, a year before the accident that destroyed the airship with the loss of two crew.<ref>Sterritt, David. [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/201/here-comes-the-navy#articles-reviews "Articles: 'Here Comes the Navy' (1934)."]  ''Turner Classic Movies''. Retrieved: May 23, 2015.</ref>

==Reception==
In his review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', film critic [[Frank Nugent]] described ''Here Comes the Navy'' as another of the films in "traditional Cagneyesque manner." "Some of the heartiest laughs of the current cinema season were recorded last night in the Strand Theatre, where "Here Comes the Navy" had its metropolitan première. A fast-moving comedy enriched by an authentic naval setting, this Warner production has the added advantage, in these parlous times, of being beyond censorial reproach."<ref>[[Frank Nugent|Nugent, Frank, "F.S.N."]] [https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9904EEDC133CE23ABC4951DFB166838F629EDE "Movie review: 'Here Comes the Navy' (1934); Mr. Cagney Afloat."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128013808/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9904EEDC133CE23ABC4951DFB166838F629EDE |date=2017-11-28 }} ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 21, 1934.</ref>

''Here Comes the Navy'' was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]].

===Box office===
According to Warner Bros records the film earned $1,183,000 domestically and $575,000 internationally.<ref name="warners"/>

==References==

===Notes===
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===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
{{Refbegin}}
* Smith, Richard K. ''The Airships Akron & Macon: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy''. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1965. {{ISBN|0-87021-065-3}}.
{{Refend}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Here Comes the Navy (film)}}
* {{IMDb title|0025238}}
* {{TCMDb title|201}}
* {{AFI film|6684}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|here_comes_the_navy}}

{{Lloyd Bacon}}

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[[Category:Films directed by Lloyd Bacon]]
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[[Category:1930s buddy films]]
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