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14/08/1943 Comedy, Music, Romance, War 2h 1m
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It's your own army - in the army's own show!

Overview

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

  1. Michael Curtiz

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. George Murphy

    Jerry Jones

  2. Joan Leslie

    Eileen Dibble

  3. George Tobias

    Maxie Twardofsky

  4. Alan Hale

    Sergeant McGee

  5. Charles Butterworth

    Eddie Dibble

  6. Dolores Costello

    Mrs. Davidson

  7. Una Merkel

    Rose Dibble

  8. Stanley Ridges

    John Davidson

  9. Rosemary DeCamp

    Ethel Jones

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-07-07
With poor old “Johnny” (Ronald Reagan) reluctant to get married to his a childhood sweetheart “Eileen” (Joan Leslie) with his draft looming, he finds himself with another sort of draft altogether. That one sees him, and a cast of hundreds, involved in putting on the ultimate in wartime entertainment that has just about everything except Bob Hope! Directed by Michael Curtiz, the next couple of hours is spent combining their rather predicable romantic shenanigans with an whole array of rousing musical numbers ranging from toe-tapping drag to large-scale choreographed marching routines - ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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