The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968) on Netflix
Sgt. Dan O'Farrell's Army unit on a South Pacific island in World War II lacks beer and women. The beer ship is torpedoed, and the nurses are six men and Nellie Krause.
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Plot summary
On a South Pacific island during the Second World War, Master Sergeant Dan O'Farrell's Army unit is short of the two things the men miss most, women and beer. A Japanese submarine torpedoes the supply ship bringing the beer. Navy personnel on the island make things hard for O'Farrell and his Army buddies, and one officer is set on emulating John Paul Jones. Word comes that morale-boosting nurses are on the way, but the group that arrives is six men and Nurse Nellie Krause. Also on the island is Calvin Coolidge Ishimura, a Japanese soldier who keeps himself hidden from everyone else.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
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- The film was set to be shot in Hawaii, but the US Department of Defense, which cooperated with the production, suggested moving to the Caribbean because of Vietnam War activity, so it was filmed in Puerto Rico in 1967, with Bob Hope then aged 64.
- The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell was the last film directed by Frank Tashlin, who died in 1972.
