8.0
Rome, Open City
1945
“It's your own army - in the army's own show!”
This Is the Army (1943)
August 14, 19432h 1mEN
5.6
24 votes
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.
Director
Michael CurtizWriters
Where to Watch
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Free
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures
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6.0With 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 - all for…
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