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MISTER ROBERTS
U.S., 1955
Directed by John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy
Starring Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, William Powell, Ward Bond
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Supporting Actor (Jack Lemmon), 1955
Approx. 123 min. DCP.
“Adaptation of Thomas Heggen's Broadway hit about a WWII supply ship, its martinet captain, and the junior officer who finally makes the symbolic gesture required to liberate the pent-up tensions in the crew.” – Time Out
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Wonderfully sentimental and touchingly perceptive about its civilian-seamen caught in the backwash of a war they neither saw nor fully comprehended.”
– A.H. Weiler, The New York Times