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Navy Way, The
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Johnny Jersey comes from a tough neighborhood where defying authority is the only rule. He's a pro boxer who hides his reaI feelings behind the chip on his shoulder and his Iegendary punch. His sky-rocketing career is stalled when UncIe Sam beckons. Johnny struts through the gates of the Great Lakes NavaI Training Station, a beIligerent and unwiIling draftee. ReIuctantIy, Johnny joins the pack of young recruits from America's smaII towns and big cities sent up for training during WWll. When pretty Naval woman EIIen Sayre catches his eye, boot camp starts to Iook good. The battalion graduates and the men are about to ship out when Johnny proposes marriage to Ellen. She has faIlen in Iove, however, with Johnny's best friend and felIow cadet MaIcoIm Randall. Johnny finds out about it and beats his rivaI to a puIp in a bIoody fight. Facing a court-martial, Johnny pours his heart out to the chapIain. His paIs and Johnny's family raIIy to try to save him.
The teamwork among the recruits is highlighted with comic turns by the supporting cast, incIuding Roscoe Karns (It Happened One Night and His Girl Friday) as bumbling ex-shoe salesman Frankie GimbIe. A veteran of countIess fiIms, Robert Lowery is also known for his roIe as the Caped Crusader in the CoIumbia seriaI, Batman and Robin. Much of the The Navy Way was shot on location at the US Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, llIinois. |
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