Joe Besser's getting tortured by the army and we're all invited to laugh.
Joe is in the army, and his sergeant is determined to make a soldier out of Joe if he has to kill him to do it.
Acting
Joe Besser's whiny panic energy is genuinely unmatched.
Direction
Jules White crams three acts of abuse into 17 minutes.
Director
Jules White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of over 40 shorts Joe Besser made for Columbia, mostly suffering in various uniforms. He later joined the Three Stooges briefly, proving suffering was his brand.
The 'dumb soldier' comedy peaked post-WWII when audiences needed to laugh at military bureaucracy they'd just survived. Besser's cowardice was cathartic, not pitiful.
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