Top Sergeant Mulligan (1941)

Synopsis of Top Sergeant Mulligan

Top Sergeant Mulligan was Monogram Pictures' attempt to cash in on the popularity of such service comedies as Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates and Laurel & Hardy's Great Guns. Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape the wrath of bill collector Mulligan (Nat Pendleton, a carryover from Buck Privates). So guess who turns out to be our heroes' drill sergeant? (Hint: the film's title gives it away). Evidently deciding that Faylen and Hall couldn't carry the picture by themselves, Monogram stocked the supporting cast with an abundance of top laughmakers, including black comedian Wonderful Smith, late of Red Skelton's radio show. The film's two leading ladies are Carol Hughes (Mrs. Frank Faylen in real life) and Marjorie Reynolds, the latter singing (in a dubbed voice) the topical song hit "21 Dollars a Day-Once a Month." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Director(s):

Jean Yarbrough

Writer(s):

Ed Kelso

Producer(s):

Lindsley Parsons

Looking for special editions of Top Sergeant Mulligan?

See All Versions

Subtitles:

Check All Versions

Closed Captioning:

Check All Versions