Destroyer
Destroyer
Release: 1943-08-19
·Runtime: 99m
·★ 6.6
Adventure
Drama
War
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Glenn Ford
as Mickey Donohue
Regis Toomey
as Lt. Cmdr. Clark
Richard Loo
as Japanese Submarine Commander
Dennis Moore
as Communications Officer (uncredited)
Stanley Brown
as Marine / Fireman
Eddie Dew
as Survivor
Edward G. Robinson
as Steven 'Boley' Boleslavski
Leo Gorcey
as Seaman Sarecky
Larry Parks
as Ens. Johnson (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
as Chief Gunner's Mate
Ronald R. Rondell
as Survivor
Virginia Sale
as Kansas' Dance Partner
Curt Bois
as Swab with large nose
Shirley Patterson
as Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)
Dean Benton
as Moore
Addison Richards
as Ship Building Foreman
Edgar Buchanan
as Kansas Jackson
Roger Clark
as Chief Engineer
Charles D. Brown
as Doctor, finding Boley unfit for further sea duty
Bud Geary
as 2nd Ship Fitter (uncredited)
Warren Ashe
as Lt. Bert Marton
Edward Brophy
as Engineer Casey
Tristram Coffin
as Doctor #1 (uncredited)
Robert McKenzie
as Justice of the Peace
Gene Rizzi
as Survivor (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
as 1st Workman
John Tyrrell
as Marine
Marguerite Chapman
as Mary Boleslavski
David Holt
as Sobbing Sailor
Frank Melton
as Doctor
Cliff Clark
as Commandant
Lloyd Bridges
as 2nd Fireman (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock
as Chief Machinist's Mate
Eddie Hall
as Austin (uncredited)
Milburn Stone
as Radioman (uncredited)
Al Hill
as Knife-Eating Sailor
Mickey Rentschler
as J.V. Talker
Lester Dorr
as 1st Ship Fitter
Gertrude Messinger
as Girl
Pat O'Malley
as Postman
Pierre Watkin
as Admiral
Benson Fong
as Japanese Sonar Man
George Magrill
as Marine
Dale Van Sickel
as Sailor
Kenneth MacDonald
as Admiral (Clark's CO)
Lynton Brent
as Doctor
Bobby Jordan
as Sobbing Sailor
Eddy Waller
as Marty, a riveter
John Merton
as Chief Quartermaster
Charles McGraw
as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Mauritz Hugo
as Survivor
Dorothy Vernon
as Justice of the Peace's Wife
