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Away All Boats [VHS] (1956)

Starring: Jeff Chandler, George Nader Director: Joseph Pevney Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: VHS Tape
4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)


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  • Actors: Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Lex Barker, Julie Adams, Keith Andes
  • Directors: Joseph Pevney
  • Writers: Kenneth M. Dodson, Ted Sherdeman
  • Producers: Howard Christie
  • Format: Color, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Rating: NR (Not Rated)
  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Good Times Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: March 2, 1998
  • Run Time: 114 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6304909942
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #32,690 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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4.0 out of 5 stars High Marks from a Navy Vet! , August 20, 2004
By Don Graeter "dgraeter" (Prospect, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Away All Boats (DVD)
I was a big fan of Chandler as a boy in the 1950's. My personal favorites of his from then and as an adult are Pillars of the Sky and Yankee Pasha. As always with older films, you have to put them in the context of the time in which they were made as far as style, realism, etc. Believe me, this guy was handsome to the ladies and a man's man to the guys....tons of on screen magnetism.

The main thing I want to add about both Chandler and this movie is my experience watching this film as a Navy officer aboard a ship of the very same type during the Viet Nam era. The title of the film refers to the fact that the ship (the Belinda, as I recall) was an amphibious cargo ship, one which carries marine vehicles, anchors off the coast, lowers boats ("away all boats") into the water and drops the vehicles into the boats for the trip to the beach with U.S Marines who drive them ashore and onward. In the officers' wardroom aboard the USS El Paso in the early '70's, we watched this movie multiple times and loved it as well done and realistic.

We did get some big chuckles out of the casting comparing actors like Richard Boone ("Have Gun Will Travel") playing, I think, the First Lieutenant, and Lex Barker (Tarzan) as the Executive Officer and comparing these guys to our own counterparts. We all thought the film was "Navy" all the way, however. I'm not sure if these amphibious cargo ships are still in operation, but they were used through the first Gulf War.

This movie is realistic and an accurate depiction of a U.S.Navy amphibious ship during wartime. Chandler is certainly the main man in the story but does not dominate to quite the same extent as in some of his other films. He is good in the role, however, and this is an authentic depiction of Navy life and a good story.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars heroic story of a Navy Captain's love of ship and crew, April 28, 1999
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This review is from: Away All Boats (DVD)
AWAY ALL BOATS is a heroic story of a veteran Navy Captain's love for his ship and crew. Jeff Chandler does a fine job as Jeb Hawk Captain of the troop assault ship the APA-22, known as the Belinda. Hawk is a former destroyer commander that takes command of a newly built ship and an almost totally new crew and starts right off teaching the "Navy Way" of doing things right. The movie is full of colorful characters each interacting to the exciting final sea battle ending. This movie is a great way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Away All Boats, December 19, 2004
This review is from: Away All Boats (DVD)
I'm also a Navy Vietnam-era veteran and I do love this film. I had recorded it years ago and now can't find the tape so I am sure I will be getting the DVD here. This movie was filmed, in part, aboard the Amphibious Transport ship USS SANDOVAL APA (LPA) 194. I was stationed on this ship in 1968-69 until we decommissioned her. Watching the landing exercises in this film brought back many memories as I was part of 2nd Division which was the boat division and we were "graded" on our readiness.
This has good acting and alot of adventure. The script was a bit hoaky at times but that can be overlooked. I highly recommend this film. Get it and Set Condition One-Alpha!
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