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      Caught in the Draft

      1941 1h 22m Comedy List
      Reviews 75% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Don Bolton (Bob Hope) is a movie star with a phobia about loud noises. Not wanting to give up his career and his easy life, he plans to dodge the military draft by getting married. Don meets the lovely Tony Fairbanks (Dorothy Lamour) when she visits his set with her father, Peter (Clarence Kolb), a colonel, and the two are soon engaged. In an effort to boost Tony's opinion of him, Don pretends to join the army. The ruse backfires, however, and he finds himself actually enlisted. Read More Read Less

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      Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies For a 1941 war comedy, Caught in the Draft is laugh-out-loud hilarious. Rated: 4/5 Jan 29, 2024 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy From Abbott & Costello and Martin & Lewis to Bill Murray and (shudder) Pauly Shore, it seems a rite of passage for popular comedians from all eras to tackle a military comedy. Rated: 3/4 Mar 12, 2021 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Released just months prior to the US entry into WWII, this comedy offers Bob Hope one of his funniest roles. Rated: B Apr 29, 2012 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Very funny well worth watching James Welch Henderson, Arkansas June 16, 2023 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/10/23 Full Review Audience Member hope brings the funny Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member BOB HOPE AT HIS BEST, HYSTERICALLY FUNNY, MANY MANY WONDERFUL SCENES. THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE. GREAT FUN. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Full of chuckles and outright laughs. This is b&w film I never knew about and strange it was released in 1941. When we think every male was patriotic at the time, not Bob Hope in this one. To the contrary, he plays a movie star who is all coward all the time. He regrets he has no health problems. "Don Bolton (played by Bob Hope) is a famous Hollywood star who tries to get married in order to avoid the draft, as he feels it will interfere with his career. He falls for Antoinette, a colonel's daughter (played by Dorothy Lamour) and in an attempt to impress her he pretends to enlist in the army, though it turns out that he has in fact enlisted for the real thing, along with his agent and assistant. Bolton is keen to impress both Antoinette and her father during training, however his skills as a soldier prove to be abysmal."--- Wikipedia [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/Caught-in-the-Draft.jpg/220px-Caught-in-the-Draft.jpg[/img] SEE the whole film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brOcsUHB9Mk Afraid of the impending draft movement by Congress, he aims to get a bride before the law is passed. Being married was a way to avoid serving in the impending war. [img]http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRAMtoFFZ5-aVGYWv9HfEUSR3vOEW08XbucZDx7DkBnlF47pNkG[/img] If you care for the humor of Bob Hope at all, you could do worse. Oddly, Hope was feared unable to carry a film mostly by himself so the studio put in known names to support him. [img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRNR1qpZ0C3V_QcI5uQCg0oH3XwFbA3r5FQC8-qeSeptQmTf4KkIA[/img] Cast Bob Hope - Don Bolton Dorothy Lamour - Antoinette 'Tony' Fairbanks Lynne Overman - Steve Riggs Eddie Bracken - Bert Sparks Clarence Kolb - Col. Peter Fairbanks Paul Hurst - Sgt. Burns Ferike Boros - Yetta Phyllis Ruth - Margie Irving Bacon - Cogswell Arthur Loft - Movie director Edgar Dearing - Recruiting sergeant Directed by David Butler Produced by Buddy G. DeSylva Written by Wilkie C. Mahoney Harry Tugend Distributed by Paramount Pictures (USA) Release date(s) July 4, 1941 Running time 82 min Language English Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member One of many Hope - Lamour teamings has Bob in a serviceman role. Something he was charitably familiar with. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member too funny!!! i love them!!! :) Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Don Bolton (Bob Hope) is a movie star with a phobia about loud noises. Not wanting to give up his career and his easy life, he plans to dodge the military draft by getting married. Don meets the lovely Tony Fairbanks (Dorothy Lamour) when she visits his set with her father, Peter (Clarence Kolb), a colonel, and the two are soon engaged. In an effort to boost Tony's opinion of him, Don pretends to join the army. The ruse backfires, however, and he finds himself actually enlisted.
      Director
      David Butler
      Screenwriter
      Harry Tugend
      Production Co
      Paramount Pictures
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 14, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 22m