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An Army draftee with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day.
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Sgt. Dorian 'Dodo' Doubleday
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Col. 'Spitfire' Barkley
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Charlie Cobb
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Sgt. William Ames
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Jeannie
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Capt. Rossmead
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Pvt. Skivic
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Pvt. Monkman
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Pvt. Cleary
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Lt. Caldwell
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Maj. Greer
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Major
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Roy Crane ...
Hartfield (uncredited)
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Soldier (uncredited)
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Radio Station Announcer (uncredited)
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Radio Station Representative (uncredited)
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Lt. Jennings (uncredited)
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Malloy (uncredited)

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Fred Guiol

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Paul Gerard Smith ... (original screenplay) (as Paul Girard Smith) and
Warren Wilson ... (original screenplay) and
Edward E. Seabrook ... (original screenplay)

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Hal Roach Jr. ... producer

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Edward Ward

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Robert Pittack ... director of photography

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Richard C. Currier

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Charles D. Hall

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Roy Seawright ... photographic effects

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Hal Roach ... presenter
Eddie Hall ... stand-in (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

Dorian "Dodo" Doubeday (William Tracy), an information clerk in a railroad station, has a photography memory. "Dodo" takes advantage of every free moment to devour the pages of the U. S. army manuals, because he knows he will soon be drafted at the same time as his buddy Charlie Cobb (Noah Beery, Jr.), who is addicted to playing practical jokes and doesn't share the same enthusiasm for being in the army. They are sent to same basic-training camp as Jeanne (Elyse Knox), who has joined the Servicemen Entertainment League, attached to all the service encampments. Because of his genius for memorizing data "Dodo" is made a sergeant.T his arouses resentment among the group of tough guys with whom he and Charlie had been drafted and, also , regular-army Sergeant William Ames, who does everything in his power to prove "Dodo's " inefficiency to Captain Rossmead (Douglas Fowley0 and Major Greer (Wiliam Gould). But "Dodo" always comes out on top when he manages to recite some obscure army regulation which justifies his unorthodox action. To make things tougher on "Dodo", Sergeant Ames has him assigned as an orderly to Colonel "Spitfire" Barkley (James Gleason), the toughest taskmaster in the army...who also knows the army regulations from A-to-Z. Is there trouble on the horizon for "Dodo"? Written by Les Adams

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Also Known As
  • Onkel Sams drenge (Denmark)
  • O Sabichão (Brazil)
  • Tanques y balas (Mexico)
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Trivia This 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). See more »
Movie Connections Followed by Hay Foot (1942). See more »
Soundtracks You're in the Army Now See more »
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