Hope and lamour had already worked together on a couple projects, so they were already old pals. With war already brewing in europe, this was released still five months before the U. S. was pulled into war. And that's a twenty five year old song and dance man eddie bracken as bert. Don likes tony, and when he meets her father the colonel, just everything goes wrong. When he ends up in the army, it gets even worse. They try don in lots of different army jobs, but he always seems to screw it up. It's good, ol fashioned bob hope humor. One-liners and slapstick, with some story thrown in. Bing must have been busy when this was cast. It's a little more serious, since the war clouds were circling, and we were still deep deep in the film code. The colonel was played by clarence kolb... always the serious, dour older gentleman, complaining of something. He was great in "merrily we live" and "his girl friday". Caught in the draft is at least a double pun, directed by david butler. He and bob hope worked together numerous times. Story by harry tugend.
Review of Caught in the Draft
