Caught in the Draft

Jul 4, 1941

1h 22m

★ 5.6

THE BIG LAUGH BLITZ OF 1941

Overview

Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?

Genres

Comedy

Romance

War

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Caught in the Draft Trailers

Cast

Don Bolton

Bob Hope

Antoinette 'Tony' Fairbanks

Dorothy Lamour

Bert Sparks

Eddie Bracken

Steve Riggs

Lynne Overman

Col. Peter Fairbanks

Clarence Kolb

Sgt. Burns

Paul Hurst

Yetta

Ferike Boros

Cogswell

Irving Bacon

Movie director

Arthur Loft

Margie

Phyllis Ruth

Recruiting Sergeant

Edgar Dearing

Castor Oil Nurse (uncredited)

Marie Blake

Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.

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