Thursday, March 3, 2011

1968 - THE PRIVATE NAVY OF SGT. O'FARRELL, horrible, bad, awful, offensive, tasteless, you can't stop watching it.

Bob's a wheeler dealer army sergeant at war with the navy as he tries to get a load of beer that was sunk by a Japanese submarine for his men that's floating around the South Pacific. 


This is the third in the Bob Hope/Phyllis Diller anti comedy trilogy that started with Eight on the Lam and includes Boy Did I Get A Wrong NumberThe Private Navy of Sgt O'Farrell is really something to see.  The film has offensive racial stereotypes about Native Americans and the Japanese and lots and lots of unfunny jokes.   Hope was 65 years old and at one point he actually takes off his shirt to play a love scene with Gina Lollobrigida!

This film was written and directed (?) by Frank Tashlin.  But lets wrap up this review with some of the hilarious dialog from the film.

41 year old Gina Lollobrigida

" Sorry, I bit your hand but I was dreaming about Nurse Krause, again."
"Yeah, those reruns are murder."

"Don't shoot. I'm an American like you. I'm Calvin Coolidge Ishimura. "
 "Yeah and I'm Sessue Hayakawa O'Farrell."


Filmed with the cooperation of the United States Department of Defense.  The whole thing had to have been intentional.

92 minutes, screenplay by Frank Tashlin.

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