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''Don't Give Up the Ship'' is a comedy directed by Norman Taurog and starring Jerry Lewis. It was filmed from October 21, 1958 to January 30, 1959, and released on July 3, 1959 by Paramount Pictures. ==Plot== Following World War II, an entire destroyer escort, the U.S.S. ''Kornblatt'', has mysteriously gone missing. Lieutenant John Paul Steckler VII (Jerry Lewis), the last of a long line of good-natured but goofing-up US Navy officers, was tasked with guiding the ''Kornblatt'' to its decommission, but somehow the ship disappeared on its home journey without a trace. Now, with a $4 billion appropriation at stake, Congressman Mandeville (Gale Gordon) refuses to approve the funds until the ''Kornblatt'' is recovered; and Steckler's former superior, Vice Admiral Bludde (Robert Middleton), who has been trying to sugarcoat this embarrassing incidence, has no other choice but to comply. Just as he is ready to embark on his honeymoon with his freshly married wife Prudence (Diana Spencer), Steckler is tracked down by Navy personnel and brought to the Pentagon, where he is charged with treason and malevolent misappropriation of government property. Though he can convince the Admiralty of his basic innocence, he is nevertheless charged with finding the ''Kornblatt'' within the next ten days, thus upsetting both his wife and his honeymoon plans. Since he is at a loss to explain the whereabouts of the ship, Steckler is teamed up with Naval Intelligence operative Ensign Benson, who happens to be an attractive woman (Dina Merrill). Benson employs a relaxing therapy to coax Steckler's memory, succeeding with much effort. In a flashback it is told that on the day hostilities in the Pacific were finally ended, the ''Kornblatt'' was ordered to return to Pearl Harbor for the decommission of the crew members with sufficient discharge points. Steckler, assisted by Ensign Stan Wychinski (Mickey Shaughnessy), and the remaining crew attempted to get the ''Kornblatt'' back to the mainland, but Steckler got the ship stuck on a reef near an island occupied by a garrison of still-intrenched Japanese soldiers. Captured by those soldiers while exploring, Steckler was imprisoned for a night before his impending execution, just for the Japanese commander, Colonel Takahashi (Yuki Shimoda), to learn that the war really was over. By the time of Steckler's release and the garrison's surrender to him, however, the ''Kornblatt'' and her crew, believing him dead, had already departed. With Wychinski being the only viable lead, Steckler and Benson track him down to Miami, Florida, where he works as a professional wrestler. From him they learn that he has turned the ''Kornblatt'' over as instructed, but being in the middle of a match, he loses the memory of the responsible official's name when his opponent whacks him on the head. Grounded by a hurricane, and unwilling to spend anymore time separated from Prudence, Steckler takes a train back to Washington, where he is forced to share a compartment with Benson (who incidentally takes a personal liking to him); this circumstance leads to a prompt misunderstanding with Prudence at the Washington railway station, who leaves him in a fury. In addition, Mandeville has drastically cut the time limit in favor of an immediate inquiry on this very day. In the meantime, Wychinsky, who finally remembers what happened to the ''Kornblatt'', has followed Steckler back to Washington and encounters Prudence, and the two proceed to the hearing which is (due to Mandeville's animosity) progressing very badly for Steckler and Bludde. Given a reprieve of 48 hours, Steckler and Wychinsky proceed to a spot in the ocean where the wreck of the ''Kornblatt'' lies following her last use as a target dummy. After a harrowing dive and struggle with nitrogen narcosis and a hungry kraken, they recover a bell from the ''Kornblatt'', thus confirming its fate, and back at the inquiry Mandeville is revealed as the man who had unwittingly assigned the ''Kornblatt'' for target practice, ignoring red tape. Finally rehabilitated, Steckler manages to secure a significantly higher appropriation for the Navy, and is happily reunited with Prudence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don't Give Up the Ship (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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