Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts(1955)

"All The Uproarious Fun Of the Smash Broadway Play!"

7.1/10
163 votes
123 minJuly 10, 1955

Overview

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

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