"[to Lieutenant "Doc"] Then I looked down from our bridge and saw our captain's palm tree. Our trophy for superior ach…"

"[reading Lieutenant, junior grade Douglas A. "Doug" Roberts's letter] "I've been aboard this destroyer for two weeks …"

"[to Lieutenant Commander Morton] Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard!…"

"[on the loudspeaker in reference to his missing palm tree] All right, who did it? Who did it? You are going to stand …"

"Henry Fonda - Lieutenant, junior grade Douglas A. "Doug" Roberts"

"James Cagney - Lieutenant Commander Morton"

"William Powell - Lieutenant "Doc""

"Jack Lemmon - Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver"

"Betsy Palmer - Lieutenant Ann Girard"

"Ward Bond - Chief Boatswain's Mate Dowdy"