Nobody's Perfect (1968)

Directors

Alan Rafkin

Cast

David Hartman, Doug McClure, Edward Faulkner, Gary Vinson, George Furth, James Shigeta, James Whitmore, Keye Luke, Nancy Kwan

The story

After World War II, four somewhat drunk US Navy sailors steal a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, but as they row back to their ship, they hear that the Navy is cracking down against such thefts, so they hide the statue in a cave. Three of the men are transferred, but the fourth, "Doc" Willoughby, sticks around aboard the submarine rescue vessel USS Bustard, based in Japan, much to the seeming exasperation of his captain, Mike Riley. (In reality, Riley thinks well of Willoughby, despite his occasional antics, and keeps persuading him to continue reenlisting.) Over the next 12 years, Willoughby gets promoted and demoted repeatedly,…

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