Stand By For Action (1942)

• Director
  • Robert Z. Leonard
• Writers
  • George Bruce(screen play)
  • John L. Balderston(screen play)
  • Herman J. Mankiewicz(screen play)
• Stars
  • Robert Taylor
  • Brian Donlevy
  • Charles Laughton

  During WW2, two Navy officers take command of an obsolete, World War I-vintage, destroyer that is assigned to convoy-escort duty in the Japanese-controlled waters of the South Pacific.