Favorite scene: Has to be when Mr Roberts salutes the palm tree and tosses it overboard into the ocean.
Favorite line:
Hey, Lindstrom, what's the old man doing?
He's sitting in a chair leaning way foreward.
What's the Doc doing?
Doc's holding a wastebasket.
What wastebasket?
The one the old man's got his head in ... WHOOPS ... THERE HE GOES AGAIN!!!
If there were true peace on Earth, there would be no one alive to enjoy it.
Jack Lemmon bursting in on Doc and Mr. Roberts while covered in soap suds.
My favorite scene is the one where roberts and the doc "make" scoth for pulver and his nurse. Its just a simple scene but to watch powell and fonda interact with such simple dialouge and make it such an entertaining sequence is pure genius. Almost anyone else and thats a boring scene with nothing much going on but they make it work.
The Captain to Pulver: Are you one of my officers?
shareAbsolutely. That one scene was almost 20 minutes long and was the funniest part of the entire movie. The scotch and "stay out of B-29s". Absolute brilliance.
shareThe picture is full of wonderful lines, putting 20 years in the Navy I can perhaps find more humor in some of them than anyone else can. One of my favorites is after Pulver blows up the laundry and the Captain calls over the PA system: "WHAT was THAT???". Favorite scene? That would be right after the crew finds out about Roberts deal with the Captain and as they go below the men all bid Roberts good night with respect and gratitude in their voices.
A friend of mine is a big Mr. Roberts fan and just got a palm tree in his office. He wants to hang a sign on it with the same wording as the Captain hung on his palm tree in the movie. Does anyone know what the sign said?
Thanks ...
the admiral john j. finchley award
shareThe other post for this was incorrect. The palm tree was the Admiral John J. Finchley award. But on the can it was planted in was stenciled:
PROPERTY OF THE CAPT.
KEEP! AWAY!
The can was haze gray, with white stencil.
Too many!
Definitely the scene where Mr. Roberts and Doc are making scotch for Ensign Pulver.
When Pulver finally meets the captain.
When the captain and Mr. Roberts are arguing about the crew having liberty, and Roberts ends up having to make a deal in order for the guys to go ashore. (Beautifully acted by both Fonda and Cagney in that scene).
Favorite lines:
Crew member: "What time is it in San Francisco?" Another crew member: "About midnight last night." Another crew member dumbfounded: "Midnight last night?"
"Doc, will you tell him what you told me last night about how stupid he (Mr. Roberts) really is!" - Ensign Pulver
"Yes Doc, perhaps you'd like to tell it to my face!" - Mr. Roberts.
Duh--I feel so stoopid. It occurred to me to put in my DVD and stop the frame where the tree is revealed. Here is how it is worded (and spaced) in the movie:
PROP.T
OF CAPTAIN
KEEP!
AWAY!
The words "OF CAPTAIN" are underlined. The KEEP! AWAY! are slightly larger letters than the others. ALL ARE IN CAPS. White letters on a green 5-gal paint bucket, quite rusty.
I know it has been months since you presented your gift, but I felt badly for not getting it right the first time.
MMM It didn't say anything; it was a sign,,,,IT READ ;)
shareI just bought this movie and rewatched it after not seeing it for years. It was always one of my favorites when I was really young. I remember though that I was never allowed to watch it because my whole family thought it was stupid and slow. Strange, some peoples' tastes in films!
Favorite Scene: I agree with the original poster
Mr. Roberts marching towards the palm tree, saluting it, and throwing it overboard.
Also I laugh hysterically in almost every scene Jack Lemmon is in. (I love that guy!)
Favorite line: "Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard!"
"That's the way it crumbles... cookie-wise."
A few of my favorite lines.
Roberts: "Y'know Doc, a thing like that could make a bird-dog self-conscious."
Pulver: "What's the matter, Doc?"
Doc: "Nothing. But stay out of B-29s Frank my boy."
Roberts (reading): "We plow deep while others sleep."
Captain: "All right. Who did it? Whoooo did it?"
i like when Powell is handing out the medicine to all the men, and one of the guys has a floating apendix or something and he just gives him asprin, knowing that the guy just wants to get out of his work. also one of the men has a headache of some sort i think and Powell asks if it goes ding-dong or dong-dong or something like that...that part always makes me laugh.
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