After deserting from the U.S. Navy in the 1930s, an officer re-enlists under a fake name after Pearl Harbor and serves on a minesweeper.After deserting from the U.S. Navy in the 1930s, an officer re-enlists under a fake name after Pearl Harbor and serves on a minesweeper.After deserting from the U.S. Navy in the 1930s, an officer re-enlists under a fake name after Pearl Harbor and serves on a minesweeper.
Billy Nelson
- Bos'un 'Freshwater' Heims
- (as Bill Nelson)
William 'Billy' Benedict
- Inoculations Corpsman
- (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
- Madigan
- (uncredited)
Edward Earle
- Officer at Briefing
- (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
- Ship Officer Lookout
- (uncredited)
Jody Gilbert
- Fat Girl in Bar
- (uncredited)
Jon Gilbreath
- Sailor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
- Quotes
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith: You get Liberty?
Richard Houston - aka Jim 'Tennessee' Smith: Till tomorrow.
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith: I got 48 hours and boy I'm gonna eat my way right through it!
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: DECEMBER 1941
Featured review
To Redeem Himself
Minesweeper is a product of the Paramount B picture unit where producers William Pine and William Thomas did things on an Assembly line basis to provide second features for Paramount's big budget items like the films Cecil B. DeMille did. They got the best training because William Pine served as an associate producer with DeMille for years before branching out on his own.
A cursory list of their credits show that their early films either starred Richard Arlen, Chester Morris or both. Minesweeper stars Arlen as a former Navy officer who deserted because of a gambling problem and who comes back to enlist under an alias as a seaman when World War II breaks out.
Arlen and Russell Hayden have a friendly rivalry for Jean Parker who is the niece of CPO Guinn Williams who lives with Parker and her mother/his sister Emma Dunn. Both Arlen and Hayden get assigned to, what else, duty on a Minesweeper.
Discovering this film was a bit of a revelation since the only well known film dealing with a minesweeper is The Caine Mutiny. But the action in that film takes place years into World War II when the USS Caine was sweeping mines away from landing areas. This minesweeper is dealing with them right outside San Diego harbor.
Arlen enlists in the navy to redeem himself and as this is a B film about a romantic triangle I think you can figure out how this will end.
Robert Mitchum has a tiny bit in this film and Mitchum completists might want to check this out. As it is Minesweeper is a curiosity flag waving film of the times.
A cursory list of their credits show that their early films either starred Richard Arlen, Chester Morris or both. Minesweeper stars Arlen as a former Navy officer who deserted because of a gambling problem and who comes back to enlist under an alias as a seaman when World War II breaks out.
Arlen and Russell Hayden have a friendly rivalry for Jean Parker who is the niece of CPO Guinn Williams who lives with Parker and her mother/his sister Emma Dunn. Both Arlen and Hayden get assigned to, what else, duty on a Minesweeper.
Discovering this film was a bit of a revelation since the only well known film dealing with a minesweeper is The Caine Mutiny. But the action in that film takes place years into World War II when the USS Caine was sweeping mines away from landing areas. This minesweeper is dealing with them right outside San Diego harbor.
Arlen enlists in the navy to redeem himself and as this is a B film about a romantic triangle I think you can figure out how this will end.
Robert Mitchum has a tiny bit in this film and Mitchum completists might want to check this out. As it is Minesweeper is a curiosity flag waving film of the times.
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- bkoganbing
- Oct 18, 2011
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- Also known as
- Dragor de mine
- Filming locations
- Santa Catalina Island, Channel Islands, California, USA(underwater scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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