Don't go near the water.

Resource Information

The work Don't go near the water. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton-Wenham Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Don't go near the water.

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents an Avon Production ; screen play by Dorothy Kingsley and George Wells ; produced by Lawrence Weingarten ; directed by Charles Walters

Contributor

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Turner Entertainment Co
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Clark, Fred, 1914-1968
• Ford, Glenn, 1916-2006
• Francis, Anne, 1930-2011
• Gabor, Eva, 1921-1995
• Holliman, Earl, 1928-
• Kingsley, Dorothy
• Richards, Jeff, 1922-1989
• Scala, Gia
• Tamblyn, Russ
• Walters, Charles, 1911-1982
• Weingarten, Lawrence, 1897-1975
• Wells, George, 1909-2000
• Wynn, Keenan, 1916-1986
• Avon Productions

Subject

• Brinkley, William, 1917-1993 -- Film and video adaptations
• Comedy films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Islands -- Oceania -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Public relations personnel -- Drama
• United States, Navy -- Officers -- Drama
• United States, Navy -- Public relations -- Drama
• War films
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Oceania -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Oceania -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film and video adaptations
• War films
• Comedy films

Language

eng

Summary

On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy's P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a clueless Commanding Officer who believes Sea Duty to be the worst punishment he can give one of his men. Siegal has to keep the foreign correspondents happy, his Commander out of trouble, and find a way for one of the enlisted sailors to date the lady Lieutenant of his dreams, while convincing a school teacher that he is the man for her

Member of

• Archive collection

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Robert Bronner ; editor, Adrienne Fazan ; music, Bronislau Kaper ;

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated by MPAA

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.D66 2011

PerformerNote

Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark, Eva Gabor, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards,

Runtime

107

Series statement

WB Home Entertainment Group archive collection

Technique

live action