Meet the Fleet (Short 1940)

Meet the Fleet: Directed by B. Reeves Eason. With Robert Armstrong, William T. Orr, George Reeves, Mary Cheffey. The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.

“Strictly cornball stuff.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI went through training at San Diego and the only realism between basic training and this film are the background shots actually filmed at the San Diego base.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story is a contrived bit of nonsense about three recruits (WILLIAM T. ORR, GEORGE REEVES and HERBERT ANDERSON), who are supervised by Chief Petty Officer ROBERT ARMSTRONG.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePredictably, Orr–who wants to see the ocean badly–gets seasick on his first outing on a boat–and the others are standard stock characters. Anderson is a guy who memorized the color chart (heu0026#39;s color blind) so he could enter the service. Reeves is your All-American boy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMost of it is on the light side, played for laughs, and it was probably used as a good recruiting film for the U.S. Navy at the time. Excellent color photography and some good glimpses of guys undergoing physical training–but the story is sheer nonsense.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWorth a look if youu0026#39;re interested in training films but not much else can be said about it. The actors do well enough with sub-standard material.”