This Is the Army

Name: This Is the Army
Director: Michael Curtiz
Released: 1943
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Charles Butterworth

1943 · 121 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 1,397 VOTES · DIR. Michael Curtiz

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,636 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:10:34 It's your country and my country

00:15:41 Yes, and the Army's glad they've got him.

00:19:26 Yes, sir. Ahem.

00:23:52 We must be going to the pier

00:27:42 You mean yourself?

00:32:03 Far across the sea

00:38:48 Oh, you look wonderfuI in that uniform.

00:43:26 Oh, that's wonderfuI. A son who does it the hard way. Where is he?

00:47:44 Who could forget, sir?

00:50:48 - What do we call the show? - Yip! Yip! Yaphank! II

00:55:03 That " Mandy" crowd, half of those fellas haven't got their costumes on yet.

00:59:53 - Sergeant Dick Bernie, front and center. - Ho!

01:02:54 One went right, killed the ducks. One left, killed the geese.

01:08:44 And it sure would be dandy

01:12:37 ...you can't give those away like fraternity pins?

01:19:22 Very pretty, isn't he?

01:26:17 [APPLAUSE]

01:30:33 Get on for " Stage Door Canteen. "

01:37:44 The cast of This is the Army will be our guest tonight.

01:42:01 [SINGING] Old Mr Absent-Minded, that's me

01:47:29 On the ground

01:53:30 - Clemens. - Here.

01:58:30 Doggone it, if we wanna get married, let's get married.

09:30:05 in the morning.

Cast & Characters

George Murphy Jerry Jones Joan Leslie Eileen Dibble George Tobias Maxie Twardofsky Alan Hale Sgt. McGee Charles Butterworth Eddie Dibble Dolores Costello Mrs. Davidson Una Merkel Rose Dibble Stanley Ridges Maj. John B. Davidson Rosemary DeCamp Ethel Jones Ruth Donnelly Mrs. O'Brien

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,636

Dialogue density13.5 lines / min

First line00:10:34

Final line09:30:05

Production Record

DirectorMichael Curtiz

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes1,397