Film · Warner Bros. · 1943
Pass it on
This Is the Army
33Leave it.
A soldier revue with a thin romance, and the country paid to be told to stay in.
Take controlThis scores 33. This Is the Army cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Don't come looking for a family. A thin romance holds a parade of numbers performed by soldiers. Irving Berlin's revue, Ronald Reagan in the cast, among the largest grosses of the year. The point was the war and the bonds. I lasted on the tunes and got impatient with the excuse for them. It is a revue, not a story about a household.
The country paid to be told to stay in. That's a hard sell to smile through, and the smile is most of what you're given. You can like a march and still hear the order. Put it on only if everybody knows this is a pitch. No child, and no marriage the story means to keep.
Journal
Keep This Is the Army in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
South Pacific
56 instead of 33
South Pacific is still a musical film, and it scores 56 instead of 33. What you gain is truth: You've Got to Be Carefully Taught says the hatred is learned.
The eight
- 4Industry
Soldiers perform the numbers; the work the night was for was the bonds.
- 2Household
A thin romance holds the parade, and this is not a household story.
- 2Piety
No conscience stops the show; the show tells the country to stay in.
- 3Courage
The risk stays off in the war while the screen offers a parade of numbers.
- 6Republic
The debt being sold is the war bond, and the country paid to be told to stay.
- 2Temperance
Each number feeds the next cheer, and the pitch never asks the room to stop.
- 3Truth
The romance is a thread; the real line is an order dressed up as a tune.
- 4Stewardship
Bonds send money to the war; the people are left with orders to stay in.
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