Main Cast: Jimmy Durante, Jane Wyman, Phil Silvers, Regis Toomey, George Meeker, Donald MacBride
Release Year: 1941
Country: US
Run Time: 79 minutes
Plot
In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner Bros.' contribution to this trend was You're in the Army Now, featuring the unlikely but undeniably chucklesome duo of Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers. The stars are cast as Jeeper and Breezy, erstwhile vacuum-cleaner salesman who stage a demonstration at a local army camp, only to end up in uniform themselves. Thanks to their ineptitude and chronic inability to follow orders, our heroes spend most of their training period in the guardhouse. They try to atone for past misdeeds during maneuvers, only to end up trapped in a remote cabin which teeters perilously on a mountain ledge (the whole routine was borrowed-actually, stolen-from Chaplin's The Gold Rush). Not teamed in the traditional sense, Durante and Silvers are permitted to perform their solo specialties, with both comedians coming out fairly even in terms of laugh delivery. As a bonus, this is the film in which nominal romantic leads Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman performed the longest screen kiss in movie history (Leonard Maltin clocked it at three minutes, five seconds)-a feat that reportedly led Wyman's then-husband Ronald Reagan to wonder aloud why he couldn't keep his wife's interest that long! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Joe Sawyer - Sgt. Madden; William Haade - Sgt. Thorpe; Clarence Kolb - Gen. Winthrop; Paul Harvey - Gen. Philpot; Paul Stanton - Lt. Col. Rogers; John Maxwell - Army Doctor; Etta McDaniel - Della; Matty Malneck and His Orchestra - Themselves; Kay Aldridge; Murray Alper - Supply Sergeant; Arnold Bell - Matthews; Grace Bradley - Jean Burdett; Leslie Brooks - Navy Blues Sextette; Georgia Carroll; Frank Cellier - Sgt.-Maj. Briggs; Marguerite Chapman; Arthur Chesney - Sugar Daddy; Peter Croft - Student; Charles Drake; Athol Fleming - Schoolmaster; Wallace Ford - Jim Tracey; Dick French - Capt. Plant; Jack Gardner; Weldon Heyburn - Sergeant of the Guard; Anna Lee - Sally Bridges; Frederick Leister - Vice Counsul; Harry Lewis - Recruit; David Newell - Staff Sergeant; Leslie Roberts - Darice Instructor; Cyril Smith - Steward; Alice Talton; Peter Evan Thomas - General; Gig Young - Soldier; Arthur Gardner - Man; John Mills - Cpl. Bert Dawson; Armando and Lita - Dance Team; Peggy Diggins
