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...
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| 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 | |
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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>
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Country:
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25 December 1941 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Listed in the Guinness Book of Records for many years for containing the single longest on-screen kiss, between Jane Wyman and Regis Toomey clocking in at 3 minutes and 5 seconds. This record was not broken until Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and then by the six minute kiss at the end of Kids in America (2005). See more »Quotes
Jeeper Smith: [Boasting, to the Army induction physician] I'm a fightin' man, Doc. I'm one tough hombre. Surrender is two words that ain't in my "vocaburary."See more »
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Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Charlton Heston/Dom DeLuise/Ace Trucking Company/Lucille Ball (1974) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Jimmie & Phil worked terrific together. I wish it was on DVD or at least VHS. Very very funny movie and kids will enjoy it also. If you like watching the Marx Brothers movies, you'll love "You're in the Army Now" One of the funniest...clean humor...movies of all time.