Combat Fatigue Irritability (US Navy, 1945)

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  • Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2024
  • Gene Kelly directs and stars in this wartime naval "training" film. Kelly plays the role of Seaman Bob Lucas, a troubled and angry "fireman" whose ship was sunk in battle. Many sailors died at sea, but Lucas lived through it and suffers from what now might be termed "post-traumatic stress disorder." After lashing out at everyone around him, Lucas comes to understand his emotions, and moves from illness to wellness, with the help of a wise psychiatrist. Kelly considered his performance in Combat Fatigue Irritability one of his very best. But no filmography lists it. Apart from the combat-fatigued sailors for whom the film was made, few people have ever had the chance to see it. With this release it becomes accessible to Kelly's devoted fans and a wider public.
    Produced by United States Navy Department, Bureau of Aeronautics
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Комментарии • 84

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 9 месяцев назад +7

    Gene Kelly - being a messed up soldier. This is the first time I’ve seen an actual actor in one of these. And good job, too. All of them were good. How they were allowed to make a film like this in the ‘40’s is amazing. As it was specifically for the men in the War, it’s really good they did do it. They probably used worse cursing than here. Gene was amazing - never saw him so angry or disturbed. Very good production all together!

  • @jimflys2
    @jimflys2 6 лет назад +53

    I know a WWII combat vet and POW who still after more than 70 years cannot have a conversation that will involve deep, deep wounds of war memories. And you can't have a conversation where he won't start tensing up and weeping - usually several times in a conversation. My dad also a WWII paratrooper who was no stranger to PTSD said of my old friend, "That guy has REALLY seen Hell." God be with him.

    • @allywolf9182
      @allywolf9182 3 года назад +2

      PTSD is a living hell. I hope one day they can figure out how to fix it

    • @user-zp9br7jk9k
      @user-zp9br7jk9k 3 года назад +3

      my uncle was in vietnam... same thing..
      once you see hell, and are part of it, it is hard to forget.
      what is 'normal' when you've been hunted... or when you've shot men, women, and children because it was them, or you.

    • @scroggins100
      @scroggins100 13 дней назад

      @@user-zp9br7jk9k Yep, It cost me much and the love of a woman who did not deserve it.

  • @conductorinblack
    @conductorinblack 7 лет назад +18

    This might be the best film project Gene Kelly ever did.

  • @babbaruff1045
    @babbaruff1045 5 лет назад +27

    My former partner was a policeman and after being subjected to a horrendous attack was diagnosed with PTSD, definitely one of the reasons he became an alcoholic. It's sadly extremely common with ex-servicemen, I feel for them so much 🌹

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 Год назад

      Policemen have a domestic violence rate 4X higher than the general population.

  • @MsBhappy
    @MsBhappy 4 года назад +10

    This is actually very well done and gives great insight into the optimal approaches to PTSD in this era

  • @mnpd3
    @mnpd3 4 года назад +13

    LOL I couldn't believe how that tubby bartender leaped the bar like a gazelle and kicked ass!

  • @babbaruff1045
    @babbaruff1045 5 лет назад +33

    Gene's best friend was killed in the war, his raw emotion in this performance I'm sure was partly due to the deep loss & pain he felt.

    • @Nrvsmum73
      @Nrvsmum73 4 года назад

      I thought that was him 🙂

    • @mickroberson386
      @mickroberson386 10 месяцев назад +3

      Was listening to some old time radio and there was an advertisement about caring for your mental health that was very sincerely done by Gene Kelly. You could hear in his voice that he had experienced loss over it.

  • @reidplombon3604
    @reidplombon3604 6 лет назад +22

    That's a pretty realistic and, I think, good look at what we now call PTSD. Suppression of fear, extreme discomfort, feelings of helplessness, etc. I'm impressed with their, for the time, up to date approach.

  • @rebal1681
    @rebal1681 4 года назад +12

    Whoa! The language in this film is shocking for 1945!

  • @deirdrejones5974
    @deirdrejones5974 4 года назад +33

    A little off topic, but it’s surprisingly jarring to hear people swear in a film from this time period.

    • @AB-ou8ve
      @AB-ou8ve 4 года назад +1

      We’re not used to it.

    • @michaelhuppe5151
      @michaelhuppe5151 2 года назад +6

      Well thier sailors so theres that

    • @jimm6095
      @jimm6095 Год назад +1

      They used the "F" word during WW2 but using word that here would be going too far even for a military medical film!

    • @TruckingToPlease
      @TruckingToPlease Год назад +1

      Sailor is a sailor

  • @KathyEvans
    @KathyEvans 3 года назад +6

    Weird to see a doctor offer a patient a cigarette...then light up one himself! Gene Kelly was an idol of mine when I was a kid.

  • @SOULRELIEF22
    @SOULRELIEF22 5 лет назад +8

    Daddy was a sailor in WW11! AMAZING man! 💓

  • @billhuber2964
    @billhuber2964 6 лет назад +15

    Its hard to understand PTSD .my dad had it. He was torpedoed twice during the war . it took time .

  • @MFD541
    @MFD541 2 месяца назад +1

    The cost of war can not be counted.

  • @lizevans4010
    @lizevans4010 3 года назад +6

    My uncle was in the army back in wwi he spent time in the trenches, he never could speak about what it was like there in the trenches, what he had seen, what war was like. They didn't know much about PTSD back then.

  • @sharman5598
    @sharman5598 8 лет назад +27

    I have been watching these old training films as well as many old social guidance films for days now and this is the first one where I've seen a married couple with a single bed! Very interesting.

    • @mikesebphoto
      @mikesebphoto 6 месяцев назад +1

      IIRC, the single bed stuff came about during the 50s.

  • @kmeccat
    @kmeccat 6 лет назад +12

    combat fatigue...now known as PTSD.

  • @Kayaz48
    @Kayaz48 Год назад +2

    That’s the famous actor singer dancer Gene Kelly!!!!

  • @owlthepirate5997
    @owlthepirate5997 3 года назад +8

    Everytime someone says the word "God damned" take a drink

  • @delimar77
    @delimar77 3 года назад +4

    Gene Kelly!

  • @NLMNIH
    @NLMNIH  11 лет назад +14

    A shout out to all of those who are now viewing Combat Fatigue Irritability: can any of you identify any of the other cast members (none of whom are credited)? I'm especially interested in identifying the actor who plays the wise psychiatric officer, who also appears in other military psychiatric films of the period.

    • @cliffords2315
      @cliffords2315 8 лет назад +2

      we call it PTSD now

    • @cair124
      @cair124 7 лет назад +8

      imdb.com has a cast list. Sue is Jocelyn Brando, Marlon's sister.

    • @michaelhuppe5151
      @michaelhuppe5151 2 года назад

      @@cair124 she's on an episode of Wagon Train rite now

  • @BobCrabtree-ev4rz
    @BobCrabtree-ev4rz Месяц назад

    Prior to this,all I'd seen of Gene Kelley was the song and dance man in several musicals..okay,I did watch Inherit The Wind(great movie by the way)..but I was impressed by his work here.Man could act.

  • @owlthepirate5997
    @owlthepirate5997 3 года назад +4

    When the young man sat down, then the "Docter" says, "How about a cigarette?" Lol..

  • @johnroscoe2406
    @johnroscoe2406 Год назад +1

    My grandfather's submarine, SS-293 Dragonet, was close to the surface north of Japan and took damage from a bomb from a Japanese patrol plane (Navy says they struck a submerged pinnacle), the front third was practically blown off. They had to seal men still initially alive behind so the whole boat wouldn't flood, men doomed to drown. Happened in 1944. I can imagine what his time was look after they limped back home and his crew was put on some sort of rest.

  • @RodgerDodger196
    @RodgerDodger196 11 месяцев назад +1

    Good words at the end
    Where the Doc is talking to You the Audience! MAKES YOU THINK!

  • @numbersix8919
    @numbersix8919 Год назад

    Treatments for PTSD and related problems have improved since this film was made.
    You can't change the past, but the past doesn't have to change you either.

  • @gustavmarcus7737
    @gustavmarcus7737 8 лет назад +8

    Imdb has the psychiatric officer listed as Lauren Gilbert (1911-1998).

  • @gaoxiaen1
    @gaoxiaen1 Год назад

    He's right about being below decks. That's why I was in Deck Dept. , standing watches in the pilothouse and working outside, involved with everything the ship does.

  • @maddoxmiller8805
    @maddoxmiller8805 3 года назад +1

    Fun fact was originally suppose to star Marlon Brando but still won an Oscar for best director

  • @nokomismn9685
    @nokomismn9685 7 лет назад +13

    A drama like this wouldn't be possible today because each person would just be staring at his/her cell phone. Times have changed.

    • @sallyvillarreal4294
      @sallyvillarreal4294 7 лет назад +3

      nokomis mn - I think that’s an over-generalization. Yes, we’re on our phones a lot. That Doesn’t mean people don’t talk to their families, or that they don’t put them away during therapy groups.

    • @comradejames451
      @comradejames451 7 лет назад +3

      GODDAMMIT GODDAMIT GODDAMIT!!

    • @comradejames451
      @comradejames451 7 лет назад +1

      well said

    • @Megadextrious
      @Megadextrious 11 месяцев назад

      I was once in a psychiatric hospital for 10 days, we weren’t allowed to have our phones until we were discharged. It was so nice to just be in a place where a group of people could talk and everyone was listening and participating…
      As much as I love my phone for watching RUclips in bed, I really do miss the days when nobody had that constant distraction in the background. Really being somewhere and enjoying nature and laughing 😅maybe I just miss being a kid…

  • @yilderim1924
    @yilderim1924 Год назад +1

    That fat bartender is pretty light on his feet! Jumping over the bar in one movement like that.

  • @richardderosset6960
    @richardderosset6960 3 года назад +1

    Oh Great ,When your Doctor offers you a cigarette! R U N !!!!!

  • @ddivar8149
    @ddivar8149 8 лет назад +4

    Gene kelly

    • @stanleycostello9610
      @stanleycostello9610 7 лет назад +1

      DDiva R Yep. He was a rising star at MGM. "For Me and My Gal" (with Judy Garland) came out just a few years before. 1942, I guess.

  • @comradejames451
    @comradejames451 7 лет назад +7

    GODDAMNIT GODDAMMIT GODDAMMIT

  • @elizabethbrauer1118
    @elizabethbrauer1118 2 года назад +2

    "Here, take this. It will help you relax." That was the same thing my doctors told me in the 2000s when they put me on more dangerous drugs like anti-depressants and mood stabilizers. So now my PTSD is much worse, along with anxiety, irritability and thoughts of suicide. What I wouldn't give for a simple opioid so I could sleep - can't have that anymore!! Pharmaceuticals, through the ages, have left us totally dependent on the drug merry-go-round, unless we are brave enough to jump off.

    • @HUMPTYNUGGET
      @HUMPTYNUGGET Год назад +1

      I know exactly how you feel mate , after 20 years of combat PTSD and three suicide attempts tow overdoses and one hanging ....I'm on tramadol and codiene two opioids which I take in the morning and literally relax me so I can think...a little .....I'm on amitriptyline an anti depressant but I take it to get to sleep and stay asleep and minimise the nightmares I was on quetiapine which is a anti psychotic drug which helped with sleep but I get restless leg syndrome with it which is a nightmare so stopped taking it ....I must have tried every damn drug there is but I'm happy with what I'm on now , but I'm afraid they will take it off me as you say they are not keen on giving out opioids ...hope you find comfort mate love from the UK

  • @crapstermcduck6593
    @crapstermcduck6593 4 года назад +1

    Really. The very best movie perhaps ever made.

    • @crapstermcduck6593
      @crapstermcduck6593 4 года назад

      Because, Lois Lane, it's like about life and explains why men are agressive and all of that.

  • @matthewholmes8638
    @matthewholmes8638 8 месяцев назад

    Where was this video when I in? Seems weve learned nothing. Coming back from iraq and Afghanistan was the same.

  • @TruckingToPlease
    @TruckingToPlease Год назад

    Toughen up, Nancy.

    • @johnroscoe2406
      @johnroscoe2406 Год назад +1

      Oh I see you voted for Trump
      And never got off your couch.
      Proudly served onboard the USS Sofa

    • @TruckingToPlease
      @TruckingToPlease Год назад

      @johnroscoe2406 Great leap to assumptions.
      nan·cy
      /ˈnansē/
      noun
      noun: nancy boy
      a gay man.
      a timid, affected, or overly fastidious man.
      20 years and retired Navy.
      USS Independence
      USS Kitty Hawk
      USNS Concord
      USNS San Jose
      USNS Niagara Falls
      USS Peleliu
      20 years active, 15 overseas, 8 deployable and 4 on the GI Bill in Western Australia.

    • @johnroscoe2406
      @johnroscoe2406 Год назад

      @@TruckingToPlease You're full of shit. You're an internet tough guy making fun of men infinitely better than you.

  • @lindathrall5133
    @lindathrall5133 3 года назад +1

    THE RED CROSS STATESMAN WAS ABLE TO HELP THE SAILOR WHO NEEDED THE HELP OF A MENTAL HEALTH UNIT

  • @helpdeskjnp
    @helpdeskjnp Год назад +1

    At the 27:09 or so mark, that was pretty hard to watch as you can tell the guys in the background were truly upset… that’s what most men do when they have to hold back tears, is cover their eyes/faces with their hands like the guy in the background.

  • @andresweinman9995
    @andresweinman9995 3 года назад +1

    I don't want to be sarcastic about this movie! If it works it's okay for me😄

  • @holoholohaolenokaoi2299
    @holoholohaolenokaoi2299 7 лет назад

    Gene Kelly

  • @dachickenman
    @dachickenman Год назад +1

    I am surprised at the profanity in the first two minutes of a film from 1945.

    • @johnroscoe2406
      @johnroscoe2406 Год назад

      It's not a Hollywood movie. It was an internal film made specifically for the Navy to show to Navy personnel.

  • @BarryHope-bj5um
    @BarryHope-bj5um 5 месяцев назад

    Kinda looks like Gene Kelly

  • @latterette
    @latterette 3 года назад

    from Scranton says it all lol

  • @jim7627
    @jim7627 3 года назад

    No dance scene? Aww shucks ...

  • @SOULRELIEF22
    @SOULRELIEF22 3 года назад +1

    "But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
    For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
    Matthew 12:36-37!

  • @SOULRELIEF22
    @SOULRELIEF22 5 лет назад +3

    St John 3:16! 💓
    JESUS is RETURNING SOON! ALLELUIA! 🙏🙌

    • @SOULRELIEF22
      @SOULRELIEF22 3 года назад

      REPENT and RECEIVE JESUS as your LORD and SAVIOUR to have your name secured in His Book of Life.
      "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
      Revelation 20:15!

  • @mikesebphoto
    @mikesebphoto 6 месяцев назад +1

    Sue is quite the hottie!