Mister Roberts

A comedy based on a play with Jack Lemmon? Did I stumble into a long-lost Billy Wilder movie by mistake? This is the movie where John Ford punched Henry Fonda in the face, drank himself stupid, and then needed emergency surgery that took him off the film, forcing the studio to replace him with Mervyn LeRoy. Is it a Ford movie anymore after that? Maybe. It doesn’t matter. Based on the play of the same name (which was based on a novel by Thomas Heggen) Mister Roberts is a surprisingly sweet co...