This Man's Navy (1945) on Netflix
NR19451h 40m
Ned Trumpet, a Navy blimp pilot at Lakehurst, brags about a son he does not have. He arranges surgery for Jess Weaver, whose legs were hurt in a riding accident.
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Plot summary
During World War II, Ned Trumpet serves as chief aviation pilot in command of a U.S. Navy blimp stationed at the naval base in Lakehurst, New Jersey. He has a name for telling tall tales, and he boasts to his skeptical friend Jimmy Shannon about a son who does not exist. Having made the claim, Trumpet needs someone to pose as the imaginary young man. He meets Jess Weaver by chance and arranges an operation to repair the young man's legs, which were injured in a riding accident. Weaver agrees to the deception, qualifies as a pilot, and receives an ensign's commission.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about This Man's Navy (1945)
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- Wallace Beery, commissioned a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy Reserve during the 1930s, was instrumental in convincing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to produce This Man's Navy as a tribute to the Navy's lighter-than-air operations.
- Most of the naval base scenes were filmed at the Naval Lighter-Than-Air Station in Santa Ana, California, whose enormous wooden blimp hangars were among the largest free-standing structures ever used in Hollywood production.
- The former Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Del Mar in San Diego County was repurposed to stand in for the forward-deployed blimp base at Chittagong, on the Bay of Bengal in British India.
- For the submarine attack scenes, a real U.S. Navy submarine and its crew assisted in staging the action.
