Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jimmy Durante | ... | Jeeper Smith | |
Phil Silvers | ... | Breezy Jones | |
Jane Wyman | ... | Bliss Dobson | |
Regis Toomey | ... | Captain Radcliffe | |
Donald MacBride | ... | Colonel Dobson | |
Joe Sawyer | ... | Sergeant Madden (as Joseph Sawyer) | |
Clarence Kolb | ... | General Winthrop | |
Paul Harvey | ... | General Philpot | |
George Meeker | ... | Captain Austin | |
Paul Stanton | ... | Lt. Col. Rogers | |
William Haade | ... | Sergeant Thorpe | |
John Maxwell | ... | Army Doctor | |
Etta McDaniel | ... | Della | |
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Navy Blues Sextette | ... | Singers |
Kay Aldridge | ... | Navy Blues Sextette Member |
Vacuum-cleaner salesmen Homer "Jeeper" Smith and "Breezy" Jones are accidentally inducted into the army, and "Jeeper", who can sell anything, immediately begins to try and convince, Colonel Dobson, their cavalry officer of the Old School---from the "nothing can replace a horse in a battle" school---that the age of mechanization has arrived and "Jeeper" has a deal for him on some tanks. This also helps further the romance between the colonels' daughter, Bliss (named after the fort in El Paso), and Captain Joe Radcliffe, a mechanical engineer with the tank corps. Along the way, at an U. S. O show (featuring the Navy Blues Sextette from the film "Navy Blues"), "Jeeper" does an Apache Dance, spikes the lemonade with alum, and sings "I'm Glad My Number Was Called." Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Durante and Silvers would fit right in with the 3 Stooges with their unbearably bad but lovable antics as vacuum cleaner salesmen and later buck privates. But the fun picks up when they start dragging the Colonel's house through the town behind a tank in the middle of the night! And of course then they leave it perched halfway off a cliff overlooking a demolition test site.
Also, Jane Wyman, the colonel's daughter, before she became a serious actress, was seriously gorgeous.