Let's Go Navy!

{{Infobox film

| name = Let's Go Navy!

| image = Let's Go Navy!.jpg

| caption = Theatrical poster

| director = William Beaudine

| producer = Jan Grippo

| writer = Max Adams
Bert Lawrence

| narrator =

| starring = Leo Gorcey
Huntz Hall

David Gorcey
William Benedict

| music = Edward J. Kay

| cinematography = Marcel LePicard

| editing = William Austin

| studio = Monogram Pictures

| distributor = Monogram Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1951|7|29}}

| runtime = 68 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Let's Go Navy! is a 1951 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on July 29, 1951, by Monogram Pictures and is the twenty-third film in the series.

Plot

A local charity has raised sixteen hundred dollars and entrusted the boys with it. They are then robbed of the cash by two men dressed as sailors. Believing them to be real sailors, and in order to catch them, they enlist in the Navy under fake names. They spend a year at sea, but cannot locate the thieves. However, Sach is able to win two thousand dollars gambling and the boys return to the Bowery. It is there that they are robbed by the same two men, but with their CPO Longnecker helping, they are able to capture the crooks. They return to the navy office to receive their commendations, but are mistakenly re-enlisted!

Cast

=The Bowery Boys=

Leo Gorcey as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
William Benedict as Whitey
David Gorcey as Chuck
Buddy Gorman as Butch

=Remaining cast=

Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski
Allen Jenkins as Chief Petty Officer Mervin Longnecker
Tom Neal as Joe
Charlita as Princess Papoola
Richard Benedict as Red
Paul Harvey as Lieutenant Commander O. Tannen
Jonathan Hale as Captain
Emory Parnell as Police Sergeant Mulloy
Douglas Evans as Lieutenant Smith
Ray Walker as Lt. Bradley
Frank Jenks as Shell game sailor

Production

This is the final Bowery Boys film to feature Buddy Gorman; beginning with the next film in the series, Bennie Bartlett rejoined the group. It is also the last one produced by Jan Grippo, who left the series after his wife died.{{cite book |last1=Hayes |first1=David |title=The Films of the Bowery Boys |date=1982 |publisher=The Citadel Press |location=Secaucus, NJ |isbn=978-0806509310}}

The movie was written by Leonard Stern under the pseudonym Max Adams. After co-writing Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town with Martin Ragaway, Stern wanted to try his hand at writing a feature on his own. When he finally got the assignment for Let's Go Navy! he adopted the pseudonym because he "wasn't particularly proud of doing a Bowery Boy [film]".{{cite web |last1=Writers Guild Foundation |first1=(video; starts at 9:20 minutes) |title=The Writer Speaks: Leonard Stern (interview) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCrNyz-wAgw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/aCrNyz-wAgw |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|website=Youtube |access-date=21 September 2020}}{{cbignore}}