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Keep 'Em Flying (1941)

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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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Martha Raye ...
Gloria Phelps / Barbara Phelps
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Linda Joyce
William Gargan ...
Craig Morrison
Dick Foran ...
Jinx Roberts
Charles Lang ...
Jim 'Jimmy' Joyce
William B. Davidson ...
Gonigle (carnival owner) (as William Davidson)
Truman Bradley ...
Butch (Academy officer)
Loring Smith ...
Maj. Barstow
William Forrest ...
Colonel
Freddie Slack ...
Sideshow pianist
The Six Hits ...
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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AMERICA'S FAVORITE COMICS with a bombload of belly-laughs! See more »

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Comedy | Musical | War

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Approved | See all certifications »
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28 November 1941 (USA)  »

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Up in the Air  »

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(Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

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1.37 : 1
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Trivia

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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Connections

Featured in Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994) See more »

Soundtracks

"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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Up We Go, Though Not Way Up.
24 April 2005 | by (Tampa, FL United States) – See all my reviews

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.


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