This Is the Army

IMDb link: 0036430
IMDb rating: 5.8 (1,474 votes)
Genres: Comedy, War, Musical
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: George Tobias, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale, George Murphy and others

Release date: 14 Aug 1943
Release year: 1943
Runtime: 125 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: blackface, u.s. military, military propaganda, claim in title, minstrel show, blockbuster, song, singer, singing, reprisal

Plot:

In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the war, he becomes a producer. In WWII his son Johnny Jones, who was before his father's assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called This is the Army. But in his personal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancee until the war is over.

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