Paramount's announcement that it would film a major feature in Port Townsend triggered a burst of excitement and activity. Three local lodgings got advance rent payments to spruce up so they could house the person Hollywood contingent in proper style. Four hundred residents, 8 percent of the total Port Townsend population, responded to a casting call for extras.
Port Townsend's pride in being chosen for the movie was slightly tempered when the local paper revealed that it was selected only after the U. Navy officials did not approve of how the Navy was portrayed in the script. One said:. And the characters were not characteristic of Navy men" City of Dreams , Some Port Townsend residents also had misgivings about the story.
The film takes place in "Port Rainier," a run-down mill town whose young women enter affairs with Navy officer candidates because marrying one is their best hope of escaping a dead-end life.
Barbara Bogart, a Chamber of Commerce official who helped Paramount arrange the filming, recalled later that after reading the script she worried that "we were going to look like a backwoods hick mill town" Worthley. Pryne to step down as Sequim schools superintendent Announces she will resign Dec. WorkSource moves to Sequim office Supervisor: This is a re-employment office.
Cargo containers from ship that caught fire still missing Of the cargo containers that went… Continue reading. Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley is there to train and evaluate him, and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family, and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life. It will lift you up where you belong.
Did you know Edit. Trivia Richard Gere said to Barbara Walters he did the movie strictly for the money. It wound up being his biggest box office hit until Pretty Woman Goofs Just before the officer candidates take the oath and graduate a recruit announces, "All officers present. Quotes Foley : You can forget it! Alternate versions NBC cut 6 minutes from this film for its network television premiere. User reviews Review. Top review. A Few Factual Corrections and a Comment.
Officer candidates going to AOCS already have their degrees and are undergoing training, physical and educational, to earn their commission. No, it's not four years like the Naval Academy, but then again, it's not four years of hell at the Academy, as another reviewer attempted to posit. Any officer commissioned through AOCS is an officer just like an academy grad and both, ultimately, can end up with regular commissions vice reserve commissions.
Next, the training at AOCS was fairly accurately portrayed in the movie. Lots of running, swimming, academics, inspections, etc. Another reviewer, obviously not a Republican LOL , detests this movie just because of his perception that it endorsed the philosophy of the Reagan years. Utter balderdash, of course. What this movie portrays, again fairly accurately, is the growth of a loner into someone who realizes, as Spock so eloquently stated in one of the Star Trek movies, " t he needs of the many outweigh the needs, or the wants, of the one or the few.
The rigors, as stated previously, are presented fairly accurately although a little melodramatic in places, e. Never in all my years in the Navy did I see anyone "freak" out in the chamber, which is a required test, along with swim quals, every four years to remain qualified to fly.
The positive reviews of his role in the film led to Keith working solidly for the next thirty years as both an actor and a director.
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