Meet the Fleet

1940

Action / Drama / War

1
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 109 109

patriotism short film short

Plot summary

The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.

Director

B. Reeves Eason Photo
B. Reeves Eason

Top cast

William T. Orr Photo
William T. Orr as Kansas Potter
Herbert Anderson Photo
Herbert Anderson as Dan Howell
George Reeves Photo
George Reeves as Benson
Robert Armstrong Photo
Robert Armstrong as CPO Bill Jennings
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186.89 MB
988*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 20 min
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346.98 MB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
12 hr 20 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Michael_Elliott

Great Cast, Bland Story

Meet the Fleet (1940) ** (out of 4) Warner short has a familiar story but some recognizable stars that make it worth sitting through. The film follows three recruits (George Reeves, Herbert Anderson, William T. Orr) as they go through basic training and have to deal with their Petty Officer (Robert Armstrong). Reeves is best known for SUPERMAN and Armstrong for KING KONG so there are two familiar faces that film buffs will want to see but outside of that this film doesn't have too much going for it. Even by 1940, this type of story was pretty drawn out to the point where people would be scratching their heads and asking for something original. The entire film is pretty much of mockery of everything that would be going on in the Navy and once again Armstrong is playing that moron that he played in countless films. I love seeing him but he just doesn't have much to do here. The Technicolor is the one saving grace and there's a great scene in a library where the colors really jump off the screen.
Reviewed by Dr_FIcta 6 / 10

Interesting time capsule

As the other reviewers have noted, there's not a lot of dramatic value to be had here. But it is fun to see the four main stars (Armstrong, Reeves, Anderson, and Orr, all of whom were ubiquitous in films & TV during the '30s through the '60s) kicking around together. Even more significantly, this little propaganda quicky from 1940, in beautiful technicolor, shows San Diego naval base as it actually was at that time (so does "Dive Bomber," come to think of it, made just a little later by the same studio and with two of the same cast members in it). The opening and closing scenes featuring the USS Pennsylvania are poignant, however, because that very ship was at Pearl Harbor (in drydock) on 12/7/41. And her only sister ship was the USS Arizona.
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