Caught in the Draft (1941)
- Starring:
- Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, (more)
- Director(s):
- David Butler
Synopsis of Caught in the Draft
Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope marries Dorothy Lamour, the daughter of Army colonel Clarence Kolb, in hopes that this union will help him sidestep military service. Stuck in boot camp, Hope is a class-A screw-up until redeeming himself during a sham battle--though his "heroic" commandeering of a tank began as yet another boo-boo. Still not entirely certain that Hope could carry a film by himself, Paramount teamed him with Eddie Bracken and Lynne Overman--a sort of Abbott and Costello plus One. Despite the efforts to make Bob Hope part of an ensemble, it is clear from the first frame to the last who is truly the star of Caught in the Draft. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Caught in the Draft
- Bob Hope - Don Bolton
- Lynne Overman - Steve
- Clarence Kolb - Col. Peter Fairbanks
- Ferike Boros - Yetta
- Irving Bacon - Cogswell
- Edgar Dearing - Recruiting Sergeant
- Jimmie Dodd - Indignant Patient
- Jack Luden - Captain
- Archie Twitchell - Stretcher patient
- Eleanor Stewart - Nurse
- Ella Neal - Nurse
- George McKay - Quartermaster Sgt.
- David Oliver - Cameraman
- Gloria Williams - Nurse
- Jerry Jerome - Captain
- Frank O'Connor - Major
- Phyllis Kennedy - Susan
- Edward Hearn - Operation manager
- Victor Cutler - Rookie
- Marie Blake - Nurse
- Dorothy Lamour - Tony Fairbanks
- Eddie Bracken - Bert
- Paul Hurst - Sgt. Bums
- Phyllis Ruth - Margie
- Arthur Loft - Director
- Murray Alper - Make-up man
- Ray Flynn - Lt. Colonel
- Dave Willock - Colonel's orderly
- Andrew Tombes - Justice of the Peace
- Edwin Stanley - Medical examiner
- Frances Morris - Stretcher nurse
- Frank Marlowe - Twitchell
- Peter Lynn - Pilot
- Edward Peil, Jr. - Patient
- Leonard Henry - Corporal
- Frank Mitchell - Captain
- Weldon Heyburn - Sergeant at Examining depot
- Ellen Drew
- Jack Chapin - Rookie
- Director(s):
- David Butler
- Writer(s):
- Harry Tugend, Wilkie Mahoney
- Producer(s):
- Buddy G. DeSylva
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