You're in the Army Now (1941)

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... See full summary »

Director:

Lewis Seiler

Writers:

Paul Gerard Smith (original screenplay), George Beatty (original screenplay)

Stars:

Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers, Jane Wyman

Cast

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
Navy Blues Sextette	...	Singers
Kay Aldridge	...	Navy Blues Sextette Member

Storyline

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."

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Plot Keywords:

mechanization | mechanical engineer | uso show | mock airplane | father daughter relationship | 

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Taglines:

A Regiment of Roars! (original print ad)

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

Passed

Did You Know?

Trivia

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).

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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."

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Connections

Referenced in The Carol Burnett Show: Episode #7.6 (1973)

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Soundtracks

I'm an Army Man
(1941) (uncredited)
Written and Performed by Jimmy Durante

User Reviews

Bad jokes, but with a hilarious climax = Fun movie

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.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 December 1941 (USA)

Also Known As:

Spy Swatters

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

79 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1