6/10
Follows four enlisted men just before WWII broke out...
28 February 2012
Watchable mainly because it's one of those Warner Bros. short subjects from the early '40s featuring an interesting cast of stock players: Robert Armstrong, William Lundigan, Herbert Anderson, Henry O'Neill and William T. Orr as the soldier with a chip on his shoulder redeemed by his patriotic commanding officer.

Orr was then an up-and-coming Warner Bros. actor before he became a TV producer and plays the soldier who ends up going AWOL before he is caught. His tough sergeant (Robert Armstrong) has an unbelievable role as a man who's really soft at heart and keeps giving the soldier another chance whatever his shenanigans. William Lundigan is a level-headed army buddy who tries to talk sense into Orr.

Strictly a by the numbers patriotic short that somehow got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar. Best aspect is the color photography photographed at the Presidio training center in San Francisco.
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