

“It's your own army - in the army's own show!”
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

George Murphy
Jerry Jones
Lead
Joan Leslie
Eileen Dibble

George Tobias
Maxie Twardofsky

Alan Hale
Sergeant McGee

Charles Butterworth
Eddie Dibble

Dolores Costello
Mrs. Davidson

Una Merkel
Rose Dibble

Stanley Ridges
John Davidson
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Michael Curtiz's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. This Is the Army is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”