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
Pat O'Malley
as Postman
Edgar Buchanan
as Kansas Jackson
Lynton Brent
as Doctor
Ronald R. Rondell
as Survivor
Milburn Stone
as Radioman (uncredited)
Stanley Brown
as Marine / Fireman
Charles Sherlock
as Chief Machinist's Mate
Dorothy Vernon
as Justice of the Peace's Wife
Richard Loo
as Japanese Submarine Commander
Al Hill
as Knife-Eating Sailor
David Holt
as Sobbing Sailor
Bobby Jordan
as Sobbing Sailor
Marguerite Chapman
as Mary Boleslavski
Edmund Cobb
as 1st Workman
Gertrude Messinger
as Girl
Mauritz Hugo
as Survivor
Edward G. Robinson
as Steven 'Boley' Boleslavski
Eddie Dew
as Survivor
Robert McKenzie
as Justice of the Peace
Virginia Sale
as Kansas' Dance Partner
Glenn Ford
as Mickey Donohue
Charles McGraw
as Assistant Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Dean Benton
as Moore
Warren Ashe
as Lt. Bert Marton
Eddie Hall
as Austin (uncredited)
Gene Rizzi
as Survivor (uncredited)
Cliff Clark
as Commandant
Lloyd Bridges
as 2nd Fireman (uncredited)
Curt Bois
as Swab with large nose
Bud Geary
as 2nd Ship Fitter (uncredited)
Shirley Patterson
as Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)
George Magrill
as Marine
John Tyrrell
as Marine
John Merton
as Chief Quartermaster
Edward Brophy
as Engineer Casey
Addison Richards
as Ship Building Foreman
Dale Van Sickel
as Sailor
Roger Clark
as Chief Engineer
Charles D. Brown
as Doctor, finding Boley unfit for further sea duty
Larry Parks
as Ens. Johnson (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
as Chief Gunner's Mate
Pierre Watkin
as Admiral
Regis Toomey
as Lt. Cmdr. Clark
Leo Gorcey
as Seaman Sarecky
Eddy Waller
as Marty, a riveter
Benson Fong
as Japanese Sonar Man
Dennis Moore
as Communications Officer (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
as 1st Ship Fitter
Mickey Rentschler
as J.V. Talker
Kenneth MacDonald
as Admiral (Clark's CO)
Tristram Coffin
as Doctor #1 (uncredited)
Frank Melton
as Doctor
