Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW001209 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1943 |
Original Title |
JUNIOR ARMY |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Colbert Clark; Assistent director: Theodore Joos; Script: Paul Gangelin; Based on: Albert Bein (Story); Camera: Charles Schoenbaum; Editing: Mel Thorsen; Sound: Bailey Fesler; Art direction: Lionel Banks, Arthur I. Royce (Associate Art Director); Set decoration: George Montgomery; Music: Werner Richard Heymann, Karol Rathaus, Victor Young |
Cast |
Freddie Bartholomew (Freddie Hewlett); Bill Halop (Jimmie Fletcher); Bobby Jordan (Cowboy); Huntz Hall (Bushy Thomas); Boyd Davis (Major Carter); William Blees (Cadet Captain Rogers); Richard Noyes (Cadet Sergeant Sable); Joseph Crehan (Mr. Ferguson); Don Beddoe (Saginaw Jake); Charles Lind (Cadet Pell); Billy Lechner (Cadet Baker); Peter Lawford (Cadet Wilbur); Rudolf Amendt-Anders (als: Robert O. Davis) (Horner); Wally Albright (Student); Wallace Chadwell (Young Boy); Sherlee Collier (Barbara); Joe Conti (Jumpy); Edythe Elliott (Mrs. Ferguson); Jessie Graves (Butler); Brenda Henderson (Angela); Tom London (Trooper); Kenneth MacDonald (Keller); Joe McGuinn (Trooper); Charles F. Miller (Captain McDermott); Bernard Punsly (Bad Eye, Gang Member) |
Length |
70' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 26 Nov 1942: US release date |
Abstract |
Well-bred young English refugee Freddie Hewlett saves the life of Jimmie Fletcher, wild boy of the road, in a fight with juvenile gang leader Bushy Thomas. Freddie takes Jimmie with him to his uncle's ranch, and the uncle, Ferguson, sees the possibility of turning him into a decent boy and arranges to have him sent with Freddie to the select Pearson Military School. At Pearson, Freddie, of course, gets along splendidly, while Jimmie incurs the enmity of his classmates. Not even the gift of an airplane, inspired by Jimmie, to the school by Mr. Ferguson shakes their dislike. Jimmie, who loves engines, is overjoyed while Freddie, with a phobia about planes as a result of a bombing incident in England, is frightened. Jimmie, because of an academic weakness that keeps him from entering the aviation class, steals the mid-term exam test. Freddie, of course, reports him. Jimmie, somewhat hacked because Freddie ratted on him leaves school and returns to his old gang. He finds Bushy, wanted for murder, hiding out with a gangster named Horner. Bushy and Horner plan to steal the school plane and flee the state, and force Jimmie to lead them to it. Freddie, guarding the plane, recognizes Horner as Nazi saboteur and gets knocked down. Jimmie fights off the gang until other members of the Academy come to the rescue. Jimmie is reinstated and gets a bye into the aviation class. And Freddie, of course, overcomes his plane phobia. |
Subject Terms |
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Bibliography |
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987 |