We’re in the Navy Now 1926

We’re in the Navy Now is a 1926 silent film comedy directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. Beery and Hatton previously appeared as a comedy team in Sutherland’s Behind the Front and are reunited here. Wikipedia

“Stinky” Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, “Knockout” Hansen loses a fight with Percival “Sailor” Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him to a U.S. Navy recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the the ship’s Master-of-Arms. They overhear a mysterious conversation between Madelyn and the ship’s radio officer. Later, Madelun induces the pair to take her off the ship and into a row boat. She disappears and they are picked up by a French ship, which sinks a German U-Boat. When the war ends they learn that Madelyn was an operative of the U.S. Secret Service.

—Les Adams
Initial release: November 6, 1926 (USA)
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Story by: Monte Brice
Screenplay: George Marion Jr., John McDermott
Producers: Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky

Director: A. Edward Sutherland (as Edward Sutherland)
Writers: Monte Brice (original story), John McDermott (scenario)
Stars: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Chester Conklin