Caught in the Draft (1941)


Abbot and Costello, and even Donald Duck did it better: Capturing a moment in history where Americans were getting drafted into military service, that is. Lots others attempted it; in this early case, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
Well on his way from being a straight up hero to being a cowardly one, or simply just a bumbling coward; in this one Hope is an actor who can’t stand the sound of gunshots, a setup which will pay off in the action packed, suspenseful finale, but which doesn’t really have anything to do with anything in the mid-portions of the film.
In one scene, Lamour points out that Hope has had a run of bad luck. The overall film might have worked better had the premise simply been that Hope was playing Don “Bad Luck” Bolton.
Still, beggars can’t be choosers, and the film’s release predating Pearl Harbor might have something to do with its relatively light-weight treatment of military life, (gutting fish and peeling potatoes is as bad as it gets, but transferring to different military duty is apparently easy peasy.)
It's all perfectly understandable and fully excused.
With Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken, Clarence Kolb, Paul Hurst.

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