Salt Water Cowboy
Song lyrics to Salt Water Cowboy (1944) lyrics and music by Redd Evans
Who is that great big wonderful man,
Wearing that fine coat of tan?
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World War II
Blondie for Victory
In Blondie for Victory, Blondie organizes the Housewives of America to support the war effort. But that leaves all the housework to the husbands! And they don’t like it!
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson
The Wackiest Ship in the Army is a World War II comedy/drama starring Jack Nicholson, who’s tasked with taking a floating hunk of junk across the ocean on a top secret mission …
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The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was (1956), starring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
The Man Who Never Was is a World War II thriller. In order to mislead the Nazis about an invasion, the British take an anonymous corpse, “make” him a fake officer, plant fake orders on him, and leave the corpse where the Nazis will find him…
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The Juggler
The Juggler (1953) starring Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Joseph Walsh
The Juggler is a powerful, touching story of a Holocaust survivor. Once a world-famous juggler, he’s made his way to Israel. He blames himself for the deaths of his wife and child in the Nazi death camps.
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Father Goose
Father Goose (1964) starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
Father Goose is a strange, funny, war-of-the-sexes story that turns into a love story. It’s set during World War II, with Cary Grant and Leslie Caron.
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Bounce Me Brother with a Solid Four
Song lyrics to Bounce Me Brother with a Solid Four, Lyrics by Don Raye, Music by Hugh Prince, Performed by The Andrews Sisters in Buck Privates
Say, what kind of beat is that
Man, that really spins my hat
Doesn’t sound like boogie woogie,
‘Cause it’s really got a beat.
All Through the Night [Humphrey Bogart]
All Through the Night (1942) starring Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre
Synopsis
In All Through the Night, Humphrey Bogart plays a New Yorker with underworld connections who battle Nazi saboteurs planning to sink a battleship.
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The Son of a Gun Who Picks On Uncle Sam lyrics
The Son of a Gun Who Picks On Uncle Sam lyrics, music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, performed in Panama Hattie
Flight Command
Flight Command (1940) starring Robert Taylor, Walter Pidgeon, Ruth Hussey, Red Skelton
I originally watched Flight Command because it was one of Red Skelton‘s earliest movie roles — which is technically true; Red’s in the film as part of the Hellcats squadron, acting as the class clown, but he’s definitely a secondary character. Flight Command is primarily about a brash young pilot, Alan Drake (played by Robert Taylor) who’s recruited straight out of college to join the premier squad of Navy Hellcats. He has trouble fitting in at first, although the flight commander (played by a young and dashing Walter Pidgeon) tries to help — as does the commander’s wife (played by Ruth Hussey). There’s a suspected romantic triangle between Drake and the commander’s wife (which was only him trying to console her on the death of her brother) — but all turns out well in the end.
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