Meet the Navy is a 1946 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 musical

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 based on the Canadian musical revue Meet the Navy

Meet the Navy

Meet the Navy was a musical revue produced by the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Directed by Hollywood producer Louis Silver and Broadway choreographer Larry Ceballos, the production premiered in a private performance for servicemen on 2 September 1943 at Toronto's Victoria Theatre. The...

. Filmed in England in November 1945, it was directed by Alfred Travers

Alfred Travers

-Selected filmography:* Men of Tomorrow * Glorious Colours * Meet the Navy * The Strangers Came * Solution by Phone * Don Giovanni * The Primitives * One for the Pot...

 and produced by British National Films. It starred Lionel Murton

Lionel Murton

William Lionel Murton was a British-Canadian character actor. He most often played Americans/Canadians in numerous films and television series, from the late 1940s...

, Margaret Hurst and John Pratt. A musical troupe entertain sailors from the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...

 during the Second World War, and the film shows their personal history and experiences.

Cast

• Lionel Murton
  Lionel Murton
  William Lionel Murton was a British-Canadian character actor. He most often played Americans/Canadians in numerous films and television series, from the late 1940s...
  
   ... Johnny
• Margaret Hurst ... Midge
• John Pratt ... Horace
• Robert Goodier ... Tommy
• Phyllis Hudson ... Jenny
• Percy Haynes ... Cook
• Bill Oliver ... C.P.O. Oliver
• Jeanette De Hueck ... Gracie
• Oscar Natzke ... Fisherman
• Alan Lund
  Alan Lund
  Alan Lund, OC was a Canadian dancer and choreographer, who worked in television, movies and theater.Lund trained as a dancer in his native Toronto and first established a performance reputation as a dance team with his wife Blanche, appearing during World War II in the revue Meet the Navy...
  
   ... Dancer
• Mae Richards ... Dancer