A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.
Ann Dvorak
- Chorine
- (scenes deleted)
Ann Sothern
- Chorine
- (scenes deleted)
Bobby Barber
- Doughboy
- (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
- Recruiter
- (uncredited)
John Carroll
- Doughboy in Elmer's Squad
- (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham
- Guard House Sentry
- (uncredited)
Jimmie Dundee
- Riveter
- (uncredited)
Joseph W. Girard
- General Hull
- (uncredited)
Pat Harmon
- Induction Non-Com
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn 1941, after President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress passed the first peacetime draft in U.S. history, Buster Keaton approached MGM to see if they would be interested in making a sequel to "Doughboys." He had found that all the principal actors in "Doughboys" were still alive and living in the L.A. area, and he intended to use them in the sequel as they had naturally aged. MGM's executives turned him down because they didn't think a comedy about the peacetime draft would draw audiences. Then Universal released Abbott and Costello's "Buck Privates," a comedy about the peacetime draft, and it became the most successful film of 1941.
- GoofsThe story takes place in 1917-1918, but all of the women's clothes, hats, and hairstyles are strictly 1930.
- Quotes
Elmer J. Stuyvesant Jr.: I'll run into you - some other war, sometime.
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of De frente, marchen (1930)
- SoundtracksSing
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Joseph Meyer
Lyrics by Howard Johnson
Performed by Cliff Edwards (vocals and ukelele), Sally Eilers (dance) and chorus
Featured review
Strange misfire from Keaton
This film seems like no one was sure of what to do now that they had to include sound. Keaton shares a number of scenes with Cliff Richards, an odd talent who most reminds me of Charlie McCarthy. Much of the dialog is spoken by the drill Sergent as he screams at Keaton. Keaton's gags are reduced to the sort that would have been throw-aways in his silent films. Many of the pratfalls are forced as you can see Keaton set himself up for another mishap. The entire cast seems unrehearsed. Some of the film is so oddly edited that I wonder if the print we have now was chopped up after the initial release. Compare this film with "Spite Marriage" from a year before and you'll wonder too how the same crew could have made both films. Not recommendable.
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- ChungMo
- Oct 4, 2004
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- Forward March
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- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
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