Navy Blue and Gold (film)

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Navy Blue and Gold
Robert Kern
Music byEdward Ward
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 19, 1937 (1937-11-19)
Running time
94 minute
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$458,000[1]
Box office$1,168,000[1]

Navy Blue and Gold is a 1937 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dramatic film starring Robert Young, James Stewart and Lionel Barrymore.[2] The plot revolves around the experiences of three young men attending the United States Naval Academy.

Plot

After each is accepted for admission to the United States Naval Academy, three

plebe squad. Dick is tricked into committing a rules violation by a disreputable upperclassman with a penchant for hazing
and is severely paddled. Even though hazing is forbidden by regulations, Roger decides to get even on his own terms. Despite his egotism, his classmates as well as the upperclassmen respect him when he challenges the abuser to a boxing match and wins it.

As upperclassmen, the roommates become varsity players. Dick is undersized but makes the team as a

AWOL. Truck and Dick also go AWOL and find him drunk in a bar. Caught by Milton trying to get Roger back to barracks, the academy's former football coach, Captain "Skinny" Dawes, covers for them with an adroit adherence to the academy's honor system
.

Truck faces dismissal from the academy for not using his true name upon enrollment, revealed when he defends the sullied reputation of his father, a disgraced

Army-Navy game.[N 2]
At the traditional ceremony celebrating Navy's victory, Roger demonstrates his new-found devotion to the academy by giving up his place of honor to Captain Dawes.

Cast

Production notes

Production Dates: 7 Sep—early Nov 1937. Portions of the picture were filmed at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was used as the Southern Institute stadium in the early portion of the film and later as the Naval Academy stadium.

Reception

The film was very popular: according to MGM records it made $884,000 in the US and Canada and $284,000 in other countries, recording a profit of $297,000.[1]

See also

References

Notes
  1. ^ Truck's father, Commander Carter, was dismissed from the US Navy under circumstances closely resembling those of the Honda Point disaster in 1923.
  2. ^ Navy won the 1936 game with Army played before the film was made but lost the 1937 contest played shortly after production of the film wrapped.
Citations
  1. ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. Frank S. Nugent (December 24, 1937). "NY Times review"
    . New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2009.

External links
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