McHale's Navy

Movie
German title	McHale's Navy
Original title	McHale's Navy
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1997
length	104 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Bryan Spicer
script	Peter Crabbe
production	Sid Sheinberg Bill Sheinberg Jonathan Sheinberg
music	Dennis McCarthy
camera	Buzz Feitshans IV
cut	Russell Denove
occupation
Tom Arnold : Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale Dean Stockwell : Capt. Wallace B. Binghampton Debra Messing : Lt. Penelope Carpenter David Alan Grier : Ensign Charles Parker Tim Curry : Major Vladikov Ernest Borgnine : Admiral Cobra Bruce Campbell : Virgil French Stewart : Happy Danton Stone : Gruber Brian Haley : Christy Henry Cho : Willie Anthony Jesse Cruz : Roberto Valenzuela Tommy Chong : Armando / Ernesto Eduardo López Rojas : Gonzales Guillermo Ríos : Jose Honorato Magaloni : Castro

McHale's Navy is a 1997 American military comedy in which Tom Arnold stars and title character Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale embodies. The film is based on a US television series from 1962 to 1966.

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Background story: Years ago Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale and Roberto Valenzuela Sr. (the father of the boy Roberto), on behalf of the US Navy , the order to capture the terrorist Vladokov. Valenzuela Senior was killed by Vladokov in Panama . Since the incident, U.S. Navy officer Lt. Cmdr. McHale retired early to take care of Roberto, son of Valenzuela Sr. He lives on another neighboring island in addition to a US Navy unit stationed in the Caribbean and the island where Roberto and the villagers live. He earns his living with home-brewed beer and other amenities, e.g. B. whiskey, ice cream with which he trades. The idyllic "vacation mood" in the Navy base changes after the new commander , Capt. Wallace B. Binghampton and Lt. Penelope Carpenter, come to the island to clean up the wild life of the soldiers together. Capt. However, Binghampton himself has fallen out of favor having accidentally sunk the "dream ship" a cruise ship a few years ago . Therefore, his career suffered a decisive kink.

When the "second best" terrorist Vladokov starts to build a terrorist camp on an island, the idyll is completely over. Lt. Cmdr. McHale, is sought help by the new commander on behalf of Admiral Cobra. However, there are further differences with Capt. Binghampton, whom McHale thinks is an incompetent idiot. When Vladokov attacks the island on which the villagers live around the boy Roberto Valenzuela, McHale agrees to help. Together with his men, he succeeds in stopping the terrorist Vladokov and driving him off the island. At the end of the film, the brave soldiers of Cobra are honored. It turns out that Lt. Cmdr. McHale is the son of Admiral "Cobra".

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"(Military) comedy based on a television series from the 1960s that does not find any humorous unity and only strings together gags of different quality."

- Lexicon of international film

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• McHale's Navy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• McHale's Navy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ McHale's Navy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .