Genre: | Comedy Drama |
Creator: | Thomas Heggen |
Director: | Melvin Bernhardt |
Starring: | Robert Hays Kevin Bacon Raye Birk Charles Durning Marilu Henner Howard Hesseman Peter Jason Charles Lang Christopher Murray Joe Pantoliano |
Executive Producer: | David Rintels |
Producer: | Paul Waigner |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Runtime: | 100 minutes |
Company: | NBC |
Network: | NBC |
Mister Roberts is a 1984 American made-for-television comedy-drama film adapted from the 1948 play by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan, based on Heggen's 1946 novel. It stars Robert Hays as Doug Roberts and Charles Durning as the Captain. The film was originally broadcast on NBC on March 19, 1984. There was a 1955 Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, and Jack Lemmon.