Mister Roberts: Difference between revisions

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Roberts wants to serve in combat. {{spoiler|He dies during a kamikaze hit within weeks of his transfer to a destroyer.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Roberts gets the transfer to combat duty he wanted, but dies as soon as he gets there. Doc insists that Roberts' last letter to the crew of the Reluctant be posted instead of the news of his death. Ensign Pulver, who had been afraid of confronting Captain Morton the whole movie, realizes he's letting Roberts down... and charges to the replacement palm tree, tosses it overboard despite the guard, and storms into the Captain's office:}}

* [[Breakout Role]]: Lemmon as Pulver. It won him [[Academy Awards|Best Supporting Actor]] and launched his career.

* [[The Captain]]: Morton, only in title. He's really [[The Neidermeyer]]. Roberts is the one really running the ship. And Morton knows it. Which is one of the reasons - the other is sheer spite - why Morton refuses to let Roberts go.

** What Morton doesn't realize is that college-educated guys like Roberts can figure out a loophole {{spoiler|like angering Morton into making an open confession so that Roberts can legally claim he kept his word.}} After all, Morton never said anything about {{spoiler|that palm tree...}}

* [[I Take Offence to That Last One]]:

'''Pulver:''' I am not disorganized! }}

* [[Is This Thing Still On?]]: Morton leaves the mike to the ship's PA switched on when screaming at Roberts. This lets the crew know the truth about Roberts strange behaviour and that Morton is really the one to blame.