PT 109 - (Original Trailer)
Future president John Kennedy (Cliff Robertson) fights to save his crew when their PT boat sinks in the Pacific in PT 109 (1963).
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PT 109 (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Chain Up That Monkey
Lt. Cluster (Grant Williams) brings Lt.j.g. Kennedy (Cliff Robertson) to meet Cmdr. Ritchie (James Gregory), the cranky officer in charge of boats at the U.S. Navy base at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, April 1943, in the Hollywood treatment of JFK's Navy service, PT 109, 1963.
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PT 109 (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Take A Practice Run
Lt.j.g. John F. Kennedy (Cliff Robertson) congratulates his crew on passing inspection then, with Ensign Thom (Ty Hardin) takes the boat out for its first test, in PT 109, 1963, from the book by Robert J. Donovan.
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PT 109 (1963) -- (Movie Clip) You Got The Juice
April, 1943, en route to the Solomon Islands, yeoman Rogers (Lew Gallo) introduces us to the star, Cliff Robertson as Lt.j.g. John F. Kennedy, in the dramatization of Kennedy's heroic Navy exploits, released in June, 1963, PT 109.
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PT 109 (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Ship At Two O'Clock!
Apart from some gaudy Hollywood music, the incident pretty much as recorded, August 2, 1943, Lt.j.g. John F. Kennedy (Cliff Robertson) and Ensign Leonard Thom (Ty Hardin) in command, as their boat, with no radar, is crushed by a Japanese destroyer, in the Solomon Islands, in PT 109, 1963.