Call Out the Marines

Call Out the Marines is a 1942 military comedy released by RKO in February 1942. It stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe playing the same characters with different names that they played in What Price Glory? and several sequels however the original film trailer mentions What Price Glory? and The CockEyed World. The film features extensive stock footage from RKOs Soldiers of the Sea that in some cases appear on process screens that the actors stand in front of.

Jimmy and Harry are called back to active service as gunnery sergeants with the 6th Marines where they crash the spy ring. The fastpaced comedy uses the spy plot as merely an excuse for five musical numbers by Harry Revel and a variety of comedy sequences, such as barroom brawls over thrown garters, spies and policemen with speech impediments, and jeep, motorcycle and car chases.With the introduction of conscription in the United States and World War II in the news, the majority of American minor and major film studios made comedies about military service. RKOs Call Out the Marines had a troubled production history with different stars and technicians announced in trade papers of the time for the film. The United States Marine Corps, which had initially cooperated with the producers, was outraged over the completed film in December 1941 and ordered the film shelved as bad for morale. However it was released after America entered the war. ........

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