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This Is the Army

1943 · 121 min

A rousing, nostalgic wartime musical that blends comedy, romance, and patriotic sentiment with catchy songs and earnest performances.

Tagline
It's your own army - in the army's own show!
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.
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • family
  • love
  • death
  • music
Places
  • big city
  • military
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
  • musical
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism6
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, music, war
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Written by
Casey Robinson, Claude Binyon
Starring
George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Charles Butterworth, Dolores Costello, Una Merkel, Stanley Ridges
Cinematography
Sol Polito, Bert Glennon
Runtime
121 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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