A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.
Ann Dvorak
- Chorine
- (scenes deleted)
Ann Sothern
- Chorine
- (scenes deleted)
Bobby Barber
- Doughboy
- (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
- Recruiter
- (uncredited)
John Carroll
- Doughboy in Elmer's Squad
- (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham
- Guard House Sentry
- (uncredited)
Jimmie Dundee
- Riveter
- (uncredited)
Joseph W. Girard
- General Hull
- (uncredited)
Pat Harmon
- Induction Non-Com
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn 1941, after President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress passed the first peacetime draft in U.S. history, Buster Keaton approached MGM to see if they would be interested in making a sequel to "Doughboys." He had found that all the principal actors in "Doughboys" were still alive and living in the L.A. area, and he intended to use them in the sequel as they had naturally aged. MGM's executives turned him down because they didn't think a comedy about the peacetime draft would draw audiences. Then Universal released Abbott and Costello's "Buck Privates," a comedy about the peacetime draft, and it became the most successful film of 1941.
- GoofsThe story takes place in 1917-1918, but all of the women's clothes, hats, and hairstyles are strictly 1930.
- Quotes
Elmer J. Stuyvesant Jr.: I'll run into you - some other war, sometime.
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of De frente, marchen (1930)
- SoundtracksSing
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Joseph Meyer
Lyrics by Howard Johnson
Performed by Cliff Edwards (vocals and ukelele), Sally Eilers (dance) and chorus
Featured review
Solid Buster
Buster's talkie years get a bad rap but this one is solid. It's fascinating to watch Buster's take on WWI, especially now that I know he actually was a WWI veteran and saw combat. There's some genuine movie magic here. If you're a Buster fan, it's worth a watch.
- kaycebasques
- Apr 7, 2019
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- Forward March
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- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
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