The Incredible Mr. Limpet - Film Notes

Film Notes

The Incredible Mr. Limpet first premiered on March 20, 1964 in Don Knotts hometown at the Warner Theatre in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Both Don Knotts and Elizabeth MacRae (Limpet and Ladyfish) were employed in Andy Griffith's Mayberry franchises, respectively as deputy Barney Fife and Lou-Ann Poovie, Gomer Pyle's girlfriend in the later seasons of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C..

During World War I and World War II, there was a mine known as a limpet, a type of naval mine attached to a target by magnets named because of their superficial similarity to the limpet, a type of mollusk. "Das Limpet" was the German Navy's identification of Don Knott's character.

The USS Alfred A. Cunningham was the naval ship featured in this film.

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