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5.3(18)1h 29m• Comedy, War
The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners.
Movie Saga1964 – 1997
McHale's Navy Collection
3 Films
5.1 Avg Rating
$4.5M Saga Box Office
0.11x Commercial Multiplier
The basic plot revolves around McHale's crew's wacky schemes to make money, get girls, and have a ball, and the efforts of Captain Binghamton (McHale's superior) to rid himself of the PT-73 crew for good, either by transfer or court martial. Although they are forever getting into trouble, they (almost always unwittingly) get out of trouble. Despite their scheming, conniving, and often lazy and unmilitary ways, McHale's crew is always successful in combat in the end. The entire show is based on only two locations, one in the South Pacific at a fictional base called Taratupa (the inferred location is in the Solomon Islands) and an equally fictional town in Italy called Voltafiore.
Franchise Box Office Economics
Combined theatrical financials and commercial performance across all 3 installments.
Total Worldwide Gross
$4.5M
Cumulative box office receipts
Total Production Budget
$42M
Combined studio investments
Average Gross / Film
$1.5M
Average theatrical return
Commercial Multiple
0.11x
Worldwide Gross vs Budget
Films in Saga(3)
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5.5(6)1h 26m• Comedy, War
The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force.
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4.5(87)1h 48m• Comedy
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when Major Vladikov, his old nemesis turned the second top terrorist in the world, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale aims to put Vladikov out of business.