This Is the Army

  • Comedy
  • Music
  • Romance
  • War
8/14/1943
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It's your own army - in the army's own show!

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    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 - all for the benefit of the President watching from his box. It is quite difficult to comment on this as a film as it isnt really a movie, more a recording made of...

    July 7, 2025

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