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Keep 'Em Flying (1941)When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for. Director:Arthur Lubin |
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Title: Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
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Gloria Phelps /
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Jinx Roberts
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Gonigle (carnival owner)
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Butch (Academy officer)
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Maj. Barstow
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Colonel
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Freddie Slack | ... |
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Themselves, The Six Hits
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When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
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28 November 1941 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Up in the Air See more »Company Credits
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Blackie Benson: What'd you forget?
Heathcliff: I forgot to stay there!
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(1941)
Lyrics by Don Raye
Music by Gene de Paul
Sung by Martha Raye, Carol Bruce and The Six Hits, in the tunnel of love
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This was originally planned for production after Ride 'Em Cowboy. The huge success of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's previous service comedies, Buck Privates and In the Navy, caused Universal to produce this first. The War Department also announced a recruitment campaign called "Keep 'Em Flying Week" which Universal could use as a patriotic tie-in. See more »Goofs
When Benson and Heathcliff's plane lands, it is without landing gear in an area where no planes are near. When Heathcliff gets out of the plane, it is upright, indicating that landing gear is present, and other planes surround theirs. See more »Quotes
Heathcliff: I gotta go home, I forgot something!Blackie Benson: What'd you forget?
Heathcliff: I forgot to stay there!
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"The Boy With the Wistful Eyes"(1941)
Lyrics by Don Raye
Music by Gene de Paul
Sung by Martha Raye, Carol Bruce and The Six Hits, in the tunnel of love
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Not their best, but by far not their weakest, the film provides the viewers with the duo in the Army Air Corps, or at least a training facility.
While there has been some comment on the wood and fabric airplanes in the film, filmed shortly before the U.S. got involved in World War II, many training facilities taught their students initially on such aircraft, just so they could learn the rudiments of flight. Later, the fledgling pilots would graduate to more state-of-the-art trainers.
Minor spoiler For the aero gags, the fabric airplanes worked well: in the "inverted" sequence, Costello's head wouldn't have been able to break through a metal skin.
I had this on VHS, and finally was able to locate it on DVD, in an A&C collection.