Movie · 1943
Destroyer
Released 19 August 1943 More from 1943 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
FR·01
How old were they?
Cliff Clark
as Commandant
Pierre Watkin
as Admiral
Edward G. Robinson
as Steven 'Boley' Boleslavski
Edward Brophy
as Engineer Casey
Curt Bois
as Swab with large nose
John Merton
as Chief Quartermaster
John Tyrrell
as Marine
Edgar Buchanan
as Kansas Jackson
Addison Richards
as Ship Building Foreman
Richard Loo
as Japanese Submarine Commander
Tristram Coffin
as Doctor #1 (uncredited)
Mauritz Hugo
as Survivor
Stanley Brown
as Marine / Fireman
Larry Parks
as Ens. Johnson (uncredited)
Benson Fong
as Japanese Sonar Man
Bobby Jordan
as Sobbing Sailor
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The numbers
34years between the oldest and youngest billed
54Cliff Clark — oldest on the call sheet
20Bobby Jordan — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast