The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960 ‧ War/Comedy ‧ 1h 40m
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6.3/10 · IMDb
44% · Rotten Tomatoes
Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon) is entrusted with one of the most important missions of his World War II career: to shuttle an Australian spy (Chips Rafferty) into enemy territory. Unfortunately, he'll be doing it with one of the Navy's least...
Initial release: December 20, 1960
Director: Richard Murphy
Narrator: Richard Quine
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Based on: Big Fella Wash-Wash; 1956 story in Argosy; by Herbert Carlson
Box office: $3.6 million
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