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The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell is a american film of genre War directed by Frank Tashlin released in USA on 8 may 1968 with Bob Hope
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
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Add to a movie listThe Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell is a 1968 film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, and Jeffrey Hunter. The movie was filmed in Puerto Rico in 1967; it was originally to have been filmed in Hawaii, but due to the activity during the Vietnam War, the US Department of Defense, which cooperated with the production, suggested the filming move to the Caribbean.
This was the final film for Tashlin, who died in 1972.
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Master Sergeant Dan O'Farrell is a G.I. on an island somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II, bemoaning the consequences of a ship torpedoed while ferrying to the island a desperately needed cargo of beer.Actors
Bob Hope
(Sgt. Dan O'Farrell)
Phyllis Diller
(Nurse Nellie Krause)
Jeffrey Hunter
(Lt. (J.G.) Lyman P. Jones)
Mako Iwamatsu
(Calvin Coolidge Ishimura)
Henry Wilcoxon
(Rear Admiral Arthur L. Stokes)
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