Up in Arms

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Cast

Danny Kaye

as Danny Weems

Dinah Shore

as Virginia Merrill

Dana Andrews

as Joe Nelson

Constance Dowling

as Mary Morgan

Knox Manning

as Narration (voice)

Louis Calhern

as Colonel Ashley

George Mathews

as Blackie

Benny Baker

as Butterball

Elisha Cook Jr.

as Info Jones

Lyle Talbot

as Sergeant Gelsey

Reviews

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"Danny" (Danny Kaye) is suffering from draftitis, but Uncle Sam isn't so gullible - even when he claims to have a disease more readily found in fish. Anyway, with uniform beckoning he and best pal "Joe" (Dana Andrews) arrive at the training camp only to find that two of the officers at the base were...

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