“MGM’s Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the ‘military cadet’ movie genre. […] Many of the plot devices and stereotypical characters in Navy Blue and Gold would continue to resurface in similar films for the next five decades – even in the R-rated Officer and a Gentleman (1980).”Hal Erickson: Navy Blue and Gold bei AllMovie (englisch)
“[…] after recalling those prior dozens of service pictures dealing with the brass-but-toned middies at Annapolis, it is also one of the more agreeable entertainments the screen has provided this season. […] has worked them into a credible, comic, frequently touching film. The old virtues are glorified again: the good old Navy spirit, the good old Navy fight, the good old Navy sentiment, […] And, candidly, it’s good to see them again […].”Frank S. Nugent: ‘Navy Blue and Gold’ Is Shown at the Capitol-New Films Open at the Criterion and Rialto. In: The New York Times, 24. Dezember 1937.
“If Navy Blue and Gold is not the most beguiling service-college picture yet filmed, it is not Mr. Stewart’s fault. […] It is due to his expert rendition of a rather preposterous part that a rather preposterous show becomes generally exciting.” In: The New York Herald Tribune zit. nach Felicia Feaster auf tcm.com
