An Army draftee with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day.An Army draftee with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day.An Army draftee with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
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Eddie Hall
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
- Radio Station Announcer
- (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer
- Radio Station Representative
- (uncredited)
David Newell
- Lt. Jennings
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was first purchased for telecast in New York City in mid-1948 by WPIX (Channel 11), as part of its newly acquired series of three dozen Hal Roach feature film productions, originally released theatrically between 1931-43 and now being syndicated for television broadcast by Regal Television Pictures. However, no record of WPIX ever showing the film has been found. Its earliest documented telecasts took place in Chicago Sunday 23 January 1949 on WBKB (Channel 4), in Philadelphia Tuesday 31 May 1949 on WCAU (Channel 10), in New York City Tuesday 2 August 1949 on WJZ (Channel 7), which picked up the Roach package after WPIX was finished with it, and in Cincinnati Sunday 4 September 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7).
- ConnectionsFollowed by Hay Foot (1942)
- SoundtracksYou're in the Army Now
Music by Isham Jones
Featured review
William Tracy scores as information specialist with photographic memory...
Typical '40s-era service comedy in the Private Hargrove tradition with WILLIAM TRACY starring as a naive information specialist who drives his Army pals crazy with his inability to perceive when his fund of information is unwanted. JOE SAWYER is the gruff and tough Sgt. Ames that he drives up a wall in some amusing incidents as Ames tries to discipline the troops and Tracy is made Sgt. Dodo Doubleday on the basis of his total recall of army regulations.
Quite a few recognizable names in the supporting cast. NOAH BEERY, JR. and FRANK FAYLEN are amusing as army recruits (draftees) and DOUGLAS FOWLEY can be seen as an irate officer inspecting the troops.
JAMES GLEASON is the new post commander, but he doesn't arrive until the last twenty minutes of the film. Before that, it's Sawyer, Tracy and Fowler who get most of the laughs.
Summing up: Trivial bit of service humor, but strictly a B-film programmer of the low-budget kind.
Quite a few recognizable names in the supporting cast. NOAH BEERY, JR. and FRANK FAYLEN are amusing as army recruits (draftees) and DOUGLAS FOWLEY can be seen as an irate officer inspecting the troops.
JAMES GLEASON is the new post commander, but he doesn't arrive until the last twenty minutes of the film. Before that, it's Sawyer, Tracy and Fowler who get most of the laughs.
Summing up: Trivial bit of service humor, but strictly a B-film programmer of the low-budget kind.
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- Runtime50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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