Word: glug
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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With Lemmon on deck, Ship will surely enjoy favorable gales of laughter; without him it would undoubtedly have sunk without a glug in the neighborhood "tanks." Based on a magazine piece by Marion (See Here, Private Hargrove) Hargrove and Herb Carlson, the film is a run-of-the-main, sailor-suit farce about a peacetime yachtsman (Lemmon) who joins the Navy during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean...