Shipmates Forever
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| Directed by | Frank Borzage |
| Produced by | Frank Borzage |
| Screenplay by | Delmer Daves |
| Story by | Delmer Daves |
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Dick Powell Ruby Keeler Lewis Stone Ross Alexander Eddie Acuff Dick Foran |
| Music by | Bernhard Kaun |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito |
| Edited by | William Holmes |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Shipmates Forever is a 1935 American musical film directed by Frank Borzage and written by Delmer Daves. Set at the United States Naval Academy, the film stars Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone, Ross Alexander, John Arledge, Eddie Acuff and Dick Foran. The film was released by Warner Bros. on October 12, 1935.
Powell, Keeler, Alexander and Arledge combined previously with Borzage and Daves under similar circumstances of plot and character in Flirtation Walk, a film about the United States Military Academy, the year before.
The U.S. Navy provided technical assistance for the filming. Locations shots were made at the Naval Academy and a portion of the story's "final cruise" included footage of the battleship Arkansas,(BB-33) which conducted the cruises for the Navy in the 1930s. Rare footage of the Martin P3M flying boat is also featured.
Dick Melville (Powell) and June Blackburn (Keeler) meet during a naval review in New York Harbor. Though both come from Navy families, Dick aspires for a singing career and June, her father and brother both having been killed in the war, has vowed never to marry a Navy man. Admiral Melville (Stone), Dick's father, is the new superintendent of the Naval Academy and his dearest wish is that his son follow in his footsteps as a naval officer. He maneuvers Dick into enrolling as a midshipman by accusing him of being afraid of failing the entrance exams.
Though with no intent of accepting a commission, Dick passes the tests and enters the academy to be near Ruth, who teaches dance in Annapolis. Dick's roommates are "Sparks" Brown (Alexander), a radio operator from the South; "Coxswain" Lawrence (Arledge), a sailor appointed from the fleet; and "Cowboy" Lincoln (Acuff), from the West. All of the plebes receive hazing from the upperclassmen, but Dick is a special target of teasing because of his father and his fame as a singer.
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