Has anyone seen "We're in the Navy Now" (1926)

[Darren Nemeth]

Has anyone seen "We're in the Navy Now" (1926)?

It was released as a Kodascope but doesn't seem to be on video.

Can anyone comment on this Wallace Berry feature?

[Richard M Roberts]

Has anyone seen "We're in the Navy Now" (1926)?

It was released as a Kodascope but doesn't seem to be on video.

Can anyone comment on this Wallace Berry feature?

I have an old library print of this film, and its enjoyable enough, similar to BEHIND THE FRONT except this time Beery and Hatton are in the Navy. The best gags are the abuse they heap on Chester Conklin as the ship Captain. Tom Kennedy and Max Asher are also in it. I haven't looked at the print in probably 20 years or so. Grapevine used to have it on video, but I don't know about DVD.

Beery and Hatton were extremely popular in 1926-27, but their features are pretty interchangeable. Lightweight buddy-picture slapstick, and there are usually good supporting comics in them, but nothing that has continued to be particluarly memorable partially in lieu of the perrenial re-use of the formula. They go through most branches of the Military, and become firemen, and their last film together, THE BIG KILLING (1928), has them being hired as hitmen in the middle of a Hatfield-McCoy Hillbilly feud. That film has some strange possibilities that are unfortunately not well realized in the final film, but it is easily the strangest of their pictures.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

[greta de groat]

I have an old library print of this film, and its enjoyable enough, similar to BEHIND THE FRONT except this time Beery and Hatton are in the Navy. The best gags are the abuse they heap on Chester Conklin as the ship Captain. Tom Kennedy and Max Asher are also in it. I haven't looked at the print in probably 20 years or so. Grapevine used to have it on video, but I don't know about DVD.

Ick, thanks for the warning. BEHIND THE FRONT is one of the most unpleasant things i've eve sat through, so a copycat of that is something i definitely want to avoid!

greta

[dr.giraud]

I have an old library print of this film, and its enjoyable enough, similar to BEHIND THE FRONT except this time Beery and Hatton are in the Navy. The best gags are the abuse they heap on Chester Conklin as the ship Captain. Tom Kennedy and Max Asher are also in it. I haven't looked at the print in probably 20 years or so. Grapevine used to have it on video, but I don't know about DVD.

Ick, thanks for the warning. BEHIND THE FRONT is one of the most unpleasant things i've eve sat through, so a copycat of that is something i definitely want to avoid!

greta

I saw a flyer/booklet for sale on eBay for this one. Paramount promised "Bombshells of Laughter!"

[Richard M Roberts]

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quote="greta de groat"]

I have an old library print of this film, and its enjoyable enough, similar to BEHIND THE FRONT except this time Beery and Hatton are in the Navy. The best gags are the abuse they heap on Chester Conklin as the ship Captain. Tom Kennedy and Max Asher are also in it. I haven't looked at the print in probably 20 years or so. Grapevine used to have it on video, but I don't know about DVD.

Ick, thanks for the warning. BEHIND THE FRONT is one of the most unpleasant things i've eve sat through, so a copycat of that is something i definitely want to avoid!

greta

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Hey, it's a Guy Flick.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

[Christopher Jacobs]

I have a 16mm print of We're in the Navy Now that is a decent-looking dupe off a Kodascope for the first two reels and a well-worn but incredibly sharp Kodascope original for the last three reels. It's been some years since I watched it (time to dig it out again!) but I recall it being a reasonably entertaining if not terribly original military comedy. A boxing sequence is one of the highlights. I found the film at least as entertaining overall as Two Arabian Knights (which I found to be extremely overrated).

--Christopher Jacobs
http://www.und.edu/instruct/cjacobs

[Darren Nemeth]

thanks.

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

I have an old library print of this film, and its enjoyable enough, similar to BEHIND THE FRONT except this time Beery and Hatton are in the Navy. The best gags are the abuse they heap on Chester Conklin as the ship Captain. Tom Kennedy and Max Asher are also in it. I haven't looked at the print in probably 20 years or so. Grapevine used to have it on video, but I don't know about DVD.

Ick, thanks for the warning. BEHIND THE FRONT is one of the most unpleasant things i've eve sat through, so a copycat of that is something i definitely want to avoid!

greta

Having watched WE'RE IN THE NAVY NOW, I wouldn't describe it as a copycat of BEHIND THE FRONT, though there are similarities. I certainly preferred NAVY to FRONT, and I recently found it on YT, so you can have a peek at it before deciding if it's worth coughing up $xx for...

[sepiatone]

I have an old library print of this film, and its enjoyable enough, similar to BEHIND THE FRONT except this time Beery and Hatton are in the Navy. The best gags are the abuse they heap on Chester Conklin as the ship Captain. Tom Kennedy and Max Asher are also in it. I haven't looked at the print in probably 20 years or so. Grapevine used to have it on video, but I don't know about DVD.

Ick, thanks for the warning. BEHIND THE FRONT is one of the most unpleasant things i've eve sat through, so a copycat of that is something i definitely want to avoid!

greta

poor Greta,..I'd like to know more of what displeases you about the picture.