1h 15min | Drama, Romance | 12 September 1941
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Stars: Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly, Edmond O'Brien, Buddy Ebsen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034000/
Watched online, ok print.
In the Tap! Appendix for Buddy Ebsen. It's not much of a tap dance, definitely looks like he's just noodling spontaneously (appropriate for the story), and typical of his style. NOT a movie I would seek to see him dance.
I should have documented this a year ago (in the quest timeline, not in real life), because it's been almost exactly 1 year since FDR signed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Yes, the peacetime draft. America was gearing up for war, despite the fact that FDR promised during that election to not send our boys to battle. The draft is why so many pro-military films cropped up in the last year, like Buck Privates and In the Navy (both '41). The Feds actually requested Hollywood make pro-service films.
This qualifies. Definitely shows the paratroopers as heroic, competent, comradely when needed. Some men avoiding their personal problems by joining the military, others solving them ($$). Good yarn if you're in the mood for military prep.
RKO, dir. Goodwins; 6
