Destroyer (1943 film)

Destroyer is a 1943 Columbia Pictures war film starring Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford as U. S. Navy sailors in World War II.

In 1943 retired Navy Chief Bosuns Mate Steve Boley Boleslavski Edward G. Robinson helps build the destroyer John Paul Jones, the namesake of the ship he served on in World War I, sunk a quarter century later while saving an aircraft carrier from being torpedoed. When he finds out that an old shipmate, Lieutenant Commander Clark Regis Toomey, is the ships new captain, he returns to the Navy and wrangles a berth as the ships leading chief bosuns mate.However, Boley soon alienates the rest of the destroyers crew with his perfectionist attitude and ignorance of the ships modern equipment, particularly Mickey Donohue Glenn Ford, whom he replaced as leading chief. As a result, the ships crew and equipment perform poorly on the Joness shakedown cruise. Boley is demoted for striking Donohue when the latter goads him by insulting the Jones. Donahue becomes leading chief again. To further complicate matters, Donohue falls in love and secretly marries Boleys daughter Mary Marguerite Chapman. ........

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