Caught in the Draft (1941)
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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, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Bob Hope - Don Bolton
- Lynne Overman - Steve
- Clarence Kolb - Col. Peter Fairbanks
- Ferike Boros - Yetta
- Irving Bacon - Cogswell
- Edgar Dearing - Recruiting Sergeant
- Eleanor Stewart - Nurse
- Ella Neal - Nurse
- George McKay - Quartermaster Sgt.
- Jack Luden - Captain
- Weldon Heyburn - Sergeant at Examining depot
- Peter Lynn - Pilot
- Edward Peil, Jr. - Patient
- Leonard Henry - Corporal
- Frank Mitchell - Captain
- Archie Twitchell - Stretcher patient
- Jack Chapin - Rookie
- Ellen Drew
- Ray Flynn - Lt. Colonel
- 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
- Edwin Stanley - Medical examiner
- Frances Morris - Stretcher nurse
- Frank Marlowe - Twitchell
- Phyllis Kennedy - Susan
- David Oliver - Cameraman
- Gloria Williams - Nurse
- Jerry Jerome - Captain
- Frank O'Connor - Major
- Dave Willock - Colonel's orderly
- Andrew Tombes - Justice of the Peace
- Jimmie Dodd - Indignant Patient
- Edward Hearn - Operation manager
- Victor Cutler - Rookie
- Director(s):
- David Butler
- Writer(s):
- Harry Tugend, Wilkie Mahoney
- Producer(s):
- Buddy G. DeSylva
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