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Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.
Ludwig Stössel
- Dr. Schickel
- (as Ludwig Stossel)
William 'Billy' Benedict
- Recruit at Corral
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Mess Hall Draftee
- (uncredited)
Robert Cornell
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's first movie for a major studio. Their previous films had been released by MGM but not made by the studio, and they were confounded by the ways of the Hollywood studio system. All of their previous films had been shot in sequence and had been directed, edited and supervised by an uncredited Stan Laurel; Fox did not allow him such creative activity. In later years Laurel continually and bitterly recalled the shabby treatment he and Hardy received from Fox and MGM.
- GoofsThere's no way Hardy could have been drafted into the army with his weight as high as it was.
- Quotes
Hippo: What did I ever do to deserve a couple of yaps like you?
Stan: Maybe you were good to your mother.
Hippo: Pipe down!
Stan: Yes, sir.
Hippo: Now at 10:00 you're all going over for an IQ test, and according to the answers you give, you'll be classified in a job.
Stan: Swell! We're good at quizes, aren't we, Ollie?
Oliver: Maybe they'll put me in the intelligence "corpse".
- ConnectionsEdited into Myra Breckinridge (1970)
- SoundtracksYou're In The Army Now
(1917) (uncredited)
Music by Isham Jones
Lyrics by Tell Taylor and Ole Olsen
Played during the opening credits
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Timing is everything
In one respect, this is Laurel and Hardy's best movie, particularly in terms of comic timing. No longer are there silent era delays in the action and no longer are there long set-ups before the comic act. In this film, the comic timing is quick and precise. A 1941 release before the attack on Pearl Harbor (by only two months), this is another of the pro-Army non-specific enemy movies. War had not yet been declared by the United States. However, the draft had been operational in expectation of war in both Europe and the South Pacific. What this film does is to try to illustrate that the draft was fair and equitable, and that the rich were also being called to serve. The movie suggests that the Army was a relatively nice place to be, as Dan Forester (the rich boy) says: "I like the Army more and more each day." Stan and Ollie had joined to protect Dan from the pitfalls of Army life, but who is to protect them from themselves? All in all, it's a funny movie, especially the "first breakfast in the mess hall" scene and the "wrong side of the target range" scene. In war and comedy, timing is indeed everything.
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- Feb 12, 2001
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- Forward March
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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