"SMART BOY" U.S. NAVY SOCIAL TRAINING FILM TROUBLE ON SHORE LEAVE 77594
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2019
- The U.S. Navy film “Smart Boy” encouraged World War II sailors to be just that - especially when it comes to enjoying shore leave. The film opens with a group of sailors in their off hours as they get ready to go ashore for liberty (or time off) in their enlisted dress blue uniforms. At mark 03:47, one of the sailors decides to swipe campaign ribbons from a sick crewmate’s jumper. The sailor’s misbehavior continues in town, disrespecting civilians and a junior officer. “The navy goes in for courtesy. Like saluting. It’s an order to an admiral the same as you,” his friend cautions him at mark 05:20. The sailor’s disrespect carries over to women, too. When set up on a blind date, he remarks of his shipmate’s girl at mark 06:45: “She’s not bad but I bet her girlfriend’s a dog - they always are.” Opting instead to spend time with “some broken down floozies,” the sailor adds additional campaign ribbons to his uniform and hits an array of watering holes, pounding down shots and beers in a drinking montage until he enters another drinking establishment at mark 09:00 and begins flashing his seven months of pay - a site that catches the eye of the bartender.
With a wink and a nod, he sends a well-dressed B-girl toward her mark and encourages him to buy her some drinks. “I thought you were a friend of mine. From the back you look just like him. He’s very well built, too,” she purrs. “I can say the same for you,” he replies as his eyes wander. The drinks and the flirting continues as the sailor relates a wild story of an invasion at mark 10:50 - one he only read about in a magazine. As his stories grow and his speech slurs by mark 11:05, he delights a growing crowd with more tall tales and high-priced drink purchases.
The morality tale starts at mark 11:45, when the blonde B-girl goes in for the kill … and lifts a wad of cash from the drunken sailor’s belt, passing off the cash to her bartender partner before he cuts him off and kicks him out. Stumbling out into the daylight at mark 13:30, he suggests they go up to her place. “What do you mean? If you think I’m some kind of round-heel tramp you’ve got another thing coming,” she snaps before storming off.
He returns to the diner where he left his friend at the start of the film, and realizes he’s been relieved of his dough. A not-too-sympathetic police officer steps in and at mark 15:15 delivers a message to all sailors: “That’s the trouble. These boys won’t do as they’ve been warned. They bring too much money ashore and flash it around and get drunk. First think you know they’ve been dipped, maybe by some cutie, or rolled. There isn’t much you can do for them. They can’t give enough information to make a case.”
As the film flashes to the drunken sailor’s buddy, enjoying domestic tranquility with his girlfriend and her attractive friend in the comfort of a perfect 1940s home, shore patrol enters the scene at mark 16:48, carrying the film’s unconscious star into jail to end the film.
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Rule number 1 of having money
Never look like you have money 🤣
Rule #2 of having money: never mouth off about having money
You can always tell who actually EARNED their paychecks and who gambled/stole/inherited theirs.
I came in the Navy during the Vietnam War, if they had movies like this in boot camp I don't remember it. But, then, all that I remember about boot camp is the marching everywhere, the constant cleaning of the barracks, food in the chow hall being eaten so fast that you never tasted it, and nearly contracting pneumonia in service week (sleeping 3-4 HOURS a night and working more than 16-17 A day, for over a week).
Thank you for your service sir !👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ditto shipmay
Shipmate..
such Neanderthal training you had to endure. It's a wonder the US ever "won" a war in spite of itself. Dumb luck. Curse the armchair warriors and politicians who endanger our troops and use them as cannon fodder.
@@shawnmalone9711 cut the crap
Six dozen sailors coming ashore for liberty still spells trouble! There’s always “that guy.”
$45 dollars in 1945 is the equivalent of $644 in 2020.
Downtown Floozies usually had the clap, too......
If you were lucky!
Nothing has changed - let the boys out and trouble will follow and it is never their fault. keep the videos coming
This almost turns into a film noir complete with a femme fatale about halfway through.
Earl Holliman....a great actor ...stars here.
He did a lot of USO and Army training films , a few with Burgess Meredith and Ronny Reagan
I dont know what film you were watching but Earl Holliman was NOT in this flick! Sorry.
@@richarddismore5901I guess it's a coincidence that they film this in Los Angeles at the Navy Communications School the same year that Earl Holliman was discovered to be acting underaged in the Navy at 16 .
So it was decided by the Navy that it would have been embarrassing to the Navy recruitment drive to come firward publically so they gave him an honorable discharge from a neutral discharge.
He got kicked out of the Navy in 1944 at 16 because the producers of the Navy films became suspicious because he looks so young ...that he was definitely not 18. They were right he enlisted at 15! Check out Earl Holliman Wikipedia page he was an actor even at 13 and he already tried to go to Hollywood once but failed after 1 week. So he enlisted in the Navy a year later at 15 and served 1 year 1943-44 Navy communication School in Los Angeles where they filmed all of these episodes, lol.
The same year this film was made I should add....this led to questions about his age... a full year after enlisting and when they found out about his age it came almost a scandal and he was given a discharge when word got out that he enlisted under age at 15. He was discharged honorably
Who is Ronny Reagan?
@@johngibson2884 My dad went in age 15 in 1946...It was never found out and he retired in 1968...
Love these old information films …>
What happens in the dark, always comes to light.
The problem with those Dress Blues he was wearing, instead of a convenient zipper in the front of the trousers, someone had a brilliant idea to have 13 buttons, basically thirteen buttons too many. Definitely not a good choice of trousers to put on before heading out on liberty to the Gut, for a few beers!
The Navy finally moved to zippers and made the buttons decorative 6 years ago
As a one time E4 I can verify the accuracy of this video. 😂
He was surly and had a chip on his shoulder when he was sober but as he drank he actually became nicer.
There's nothing worse than a sober drunk.
@NKP514 I think you're right. I was ready to chalk it up to bad acting, but the production may have been more aware of the real world than I had thought.
hilarious realistic comments.
@@timothyjones3410 I think this one by far had some of the best "acting" since it was explicitly about a guy who acted like he was above the law while in uniform and got slapped for it. Some of the others have even the "GOOD GUYS" acting disgustingly rude, condescending, and misogynist and still acting like they get a pass because they walk a straighter line. Though not the worst. the worst is that video about following orders on the field where the guy instead of reporting a locket to the Seargent, he chokes his own ally to get him to give it up and was somehow made to look like the "Good guy".
I thought this video was going to be the one Father Mulcahy talks about in MASH about the Navy training film where the sailor ends up at trailer with a woman with handcuffs and a whip. She broke his wristwatch.
"Too damn fast!" Such language!
5:54 - the shoulders on that girl's jacket are incredible, in close up she looks as if her head's sticking out of a box.
Good actors 😊
I want that panel truck at the end.
You know what to do if you want to ride in it 😂 !
Nothing has changed that I can see.
Swell. Be careful of dames they is always after your dough. Then they gives ya a dose.
What shall we do with a drunken sailor? 🎼 🎶 🎵
🎶 throw him in the brig 🎶😀😀😀
" It was terrifying. Why we weren't more than 600, 700 miles from the shootin' " @1:30 Boy, how THAT matches the sound coming out of today's war lovers mouths.
And like most stolen Valor types, he stole most of those ribbon and recided something that happened in the magazine he was reading in the beginning. Not different from modern "gamers" acting like battles happened just like in the games they played, "And then I no-scope 360 head shotted an Arab right in the face and everyone thought it was the coolest maneuver. Even got an achievement for it!"
Must have been made, or at least released, toward the end of 1945. The then Department of War was slashing the fleet, canceling almost every ship planned or under construction. Some of the oldest and most worn out ships were already being scrapped, and about 30% of the fleet was scheduled to be decommissioned to reserve. The slogan "Keep the fleet to keep the peace" was part of the Navy PR campaign to get the public onboard with pressuring Congress to stop the scrapping and decommissioning. Never let it be said the Navy didn't know how to insulate itself from budget cuts.
This was released in 1945.
She looked clean. 😍
the only way this could have been improved, is beer goggles
Goofus and Gallant take leave.
First time that I literally LOL'd today.
Kind of an obscure reference in the modern world, but it made me laugh hard.
Gosh I loved those magazines. Used to read them all the time!
Guy couldn't hold a Security Clearance
Stolen valor.
She was right. He's a lamebrain.
How does the hat stay on the back of his head without falling off?
Those uniforms look really uncomfortable.
1099 Deus Vult They were, and they were itchy as hell too .
@@masonandmurphyliss9309
If you wore "regulation" underwear with those uniforms you were distracted enough with your underwear riding up in the legs and/or pinching your private parts that you often forgot about the urge to itch.
Notice what the girl says at the end, she always has another date lined up. Not yours just your turn.
These movies do unfortunately relay the practice of "Women are trophies, nothing more." given how even the "good guys" talk. Though it seemed both of them knew her habit given how much the sailor insisted on dumping her on the worst person he knew and the friend snapped "Lucky him..." despite having no idea what happened to him.
Enlisted go on 'Liberty'. Officers go on 'Shore Leave'.
Must have been a recent change to language….I was in during the 2010s and it was called liberty for everyone 🤷♀️
Where's the part showing how to put on a Trojan?
The Trojan was the lady stealing his money and telling him to shove off before he could even think about taking his pants off. XD Abstinence is a 100% fool proof way to not get someone pregnant or catch diseases.
USM Navy? Discord?
Somebody’s got to peel the potatoes!
At 4:18 the sailors have their rating badges on different arms. What gives?
Shouldn't they both be wearing it on their left side?
These are actors for the most part, so the accuracy is either false due to the lack of proper uniforms/time to film, or inaccurate to throw off any enemies or spies who may have watched. Though why the "enemies" also had incorrect uniforms as well points more to the first case.
Some of these swabbies got their stripes on the wrong arm.
No they don't. They had right arm & left arm ranks then. It went according to your rating.
One has rating on left arm,one has rating on right arm??
They used to be different but that system was abolished in 1949 for being old fashioned and redundant.
Right-hand rates were Seaman professions like gunner or deckhand while Left-hand rates were all the other jobs in the navy. Right hand rates ranked higher if they were working together on their own division's tasks but if working in another division or any non-seaman division then everyone just went by seniority.
8:55 Was 6 bits 60 cents?
$.75
"Two bits" is a quarter. Looks like the $1 he spent (including tip) equates to about $15 in 2021. So the $10 bill he put down later is $150. Even if they hadn't robbed him, they still had a darn good time at his expense!
@@DerrickMims did the bar owner and the girl split the money (the portion she stole tfrom his pants? I am wondering if she worked for the bartender or was related to him? I have seen some contemporary documentaires showing how some of the foreign country bars/clubs.. and even some in the USA will contract attractive females to spend all their money and use their credit card and will take them for everything they have and even don't have (as in credit card transactions). There was on documentary about a club based in Miam Florida area that was owned by russian criminals that would import russian women (human trafficed). And they would try to get (and did) get tourists to come into thier bar/club via these girls.. and once in, they would drug the guy and then rack out large transactions on thier credit card. They would sel them a wine bottles that only cost them less than $5 and charge their credit card over $1000 per bottle. And they were getting away with this scheme untill one of the guys they pulled this on was a weather Newscaster, who wouldn't let it go.. and eventually got law enforcement to help convict them. And I think the outcome is they were just deported back to Russia. The law enforcement discovered the russian thugs were recruiting poor pretty women in russia and adjecent countries like Belarus etc.. promising them good money and a trip to the USA to work.. but once they got them to the USA, they took their ID and Passports and saddled them with debt they never could repay, and kept them ignorant of their rights, to get them to do these terrible things to people.
Watch those floozies
Got pretty liquored
Why did they wear there hat way back on there head like that ?....it looks stupid
@John Smith
You wore a cover back on your head when you were feeling "randy"....sort of like cowboys do in some western movies.
Me? My cover always seemed about to blow off my head, especially right after a haircut.
@John Smith ,
USAF 1986 to 1991. No cover to be worn inside, except for MPs and ceremonial flag escort.
@@davidhoffman1278 Is that because the MPs would have been armed? My understanding is you keep your cover on indoors if armed.
@@DerrickMims ,
Yes.
Different time, different generation of men.. Most of these kids today couldn't start a lawnmower without googling it first..
Kid last week was popping off about Trump being a racist.. I asked him "what exactly has Trump said or done to make you think he's a racist.".. The kid actually started looking down at his damned phone.. He got all butthurt after i started laughing like hell.
I don't know, Gen x. and Millennials have been fighting in the middle east for about two decades now, while the Boomer generation couldn't handle a little over five years in nam before threatening to burn down the country.
Also that kid was pretty dumb not remembering that Trump started his campaign by alleging a Mexican conspiracy to flood the country with rapists and criminals.
@@SMFCNA
We had no direction nor objective in `nam. There was total confusion on the ground with poor leadership. Little wonder the boys who fought in `nam returned all screwed up.
Yet another trump bot....Everything isn't about Trump this film is about WWII and service in the military...Something that Trump and not a single member of his family ever knew anything about...but do tell of your exploits Rambo...
@@stevebell4906
You're just another unemployed loser millennial living in his mother's basement bad mouthing president Trump. Fail!
@@johna.4334 Evidently you are just another lying Trump cult member or you lack reading skills because I was responding to mike Mason " Trump being a racist.. I asked him "what exactly has Trump said or done to make you think he's a racist."." clearly that was the start of the first mention of Trump in this thread...
But what else could I expect from someone who clearly likes to resort to name calling and lies...
So much like Trump and the public display of your morals ,values and ideals...Obviously you have no knowledge of any of your grade school taunts and insults...But facts ton't really matter to you people.....now why don't you whine some more with your typical ...But Obama...Her E- Mails...Benghazi...And any other unoriginal and baseless thing you heard on Fox?....
Wrong............... HAIR IS TO LONG........
Yeah but if he is rude to veterans and woman no one cares is some broad rips him off it seems like justice for being a jerk.
They tried to warn him to be chill, not just because he was rude, but also to protect him from getting into trouble. They didn't have to care he got robbed cause when they tried to, HE was the one who brushed them off.
Wow, were squids that stupid? I don't think so, but Navy brass did.
There really were some that stupid.
Small town kids meet big city too fast.
Rob Hill you would never catch Marines doing that
There's "squids" that stupid today.
@@nicktinson2950 a guy on my ship got overnight liberty secured for the whole boat in Manila for throwing beer bottles from a hotel window and this was 2011, so….yeah, they’re this stupid lol
That's how i met my ex Wife 😉
Bill = MUTT
You know what the difference between the 2 guys are? The drunk has great shore stories to tell for the rest of his life. The nice guy is a square and didn't really "live" in the Navy.
Wrong! The drunk won't even remember what all he did except for fragmented images of the times he got rolled and got his ass kicked and woke up in the gutter or the SP lockup. The other guy will be the one with stories to tell. People who equate getting shit-faced as "living" don't know what they're talking about.
Good, it'll make fresh stories for the next time he'll jive talk and get robbed while telling his stories.
@@keyweststeve3509 Hehehe, djtheg6819 was being facetious. The guy coming home drunk and locked up for years is gonna have WAY wilder stories to tell even if he doesn't remember them. Nothing wrong with being "Square", but who do people prefer to watch videos about? The guy who followed the rules and stayed clean their whole life? or the moron who was lucky to be locked up before he threw himself off a building thinking he could fly with the money in his pocket? It's tragic when it happens to real people, but it's what makes 90% of entertainment, people acting dumber than us and living to tell the tale. Knowing THAT is living.
The biggest crime I’ve seen happen here is that taxpayer dollars were used to create this schlock.
They made films like this because men got in trouble
You mean the whole war, not just the movies right? I swear the way some of these guys talk about patriotism especially knowing how people in Congress are today makes me seriously ask "Why...did we go to war in the first place even back in WWII?" and I don't want to hear "To stop the Nazis" cause at least a quarter of those in Congress actively defended the Nazis just a few years ago... so that's on US.
He sounds like Trump.
Acts like him too.