Fall In
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Kurt Neumann
William Tracy
Joe Sawyer
Robert Barrat
Jean Porter
Arthur Hunnicutt
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
At U.S. Army Camp Carver, Sgt. Dorian "Dodo" Doubleday is among a group of candidates for promotion to lieutenant, and has therefore earned the hostility of his rival Sgt. Ames, a physical brute who lacks Doubleday's intelligence. Ames and Doubleday are each assigned to head a platoon, and Ames thinks he has outsmarted Doubleday when he gives him a platoon of Black Mountain hillbillies. Doubleday proves his superiority over Ames by drawing upon his photographic memory and speaking the colloquial "language" of the mountain people, who immediately follow his orders. Doubleday also gets credit because his soldiers are crack shots, although they learned their marksmanship skills during their country childhoods. Doubleday's platoon is assigned to act as military police in the nearby town on payday. In addition to keeping order among the soldiers on leave, they are to ensure that soldiers do not discuss their troop movements. At a party for soldiers hosted by wealthy Dick Benedict, Doubleday's new girl friend Joan discovers microphones tucked into the flower arrangements. Joan telephones Doubleday to tell him that Benedict is a spy, then is taken hostage by Benedict and his thugs. A brawl erupts when Ames and the military police come to her aid, and Doubleday arrives in time to capture Benedict and his female cohort, Lydia. When Doubleday overhears a radio announcement of Nazi spy meetings, he memorizes the dates and locations, but Benedict knocks him out. Doubleday revives at the camp hospital but suffers from amnesia. When Ames overhears a doctor saying that another knock on the head might restore Doubleday's memory, Ames complies, and Doubleday immediately recites the enemy maneuvers.
Director
Kurt Neumann
Cast
William Tracy
Joe Sawyer
Robert Barrat
Jean Porter
Arthur Hunnicutt
Rebel Randall
Frank Faylen
Clyde Fillmore
Gregory Gaye
Tom Fadden
Nancy Brinckman
Eddie Hall
Crew
Harry Black
Chet Brandenburg
Bruce Cameron
Eugene Conrad
Roger Creed
Jack Crosby
Richard Currier
George De Normand
Bud Geary
Fred Guiol
Charles D. Hall
Frank Mcmahon
Eddie Montagne
James Notaro
Eddie Parker
Gil Perkins
Jack Perrin
Robert Pittack
William Randall
Edward E. Seabrook
Roy Seawright
Capt. F. G. Somers
Paul Stader
W. L. Stevens
Edward Ward
Film Details
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Notes
Although a print of this film was viewed, the onscreen credits were taken from a copyright cutting continuity. The viewed print was a compilation of Fall In and Yanks Ahoy (see below), another film in Hal Roach's series featuring William Tracy as "Sgt. Doubleday" and Joe Sawyer as "Sgt. Ames," and did not include credits for Fall In. The two, hour-long pictures were apparently combined for a later release. Fall In was also one of Roach's "streamlined features," a series of short comedies intended to fill the second half of a double bill. For additional information on the "Doubleday-Ames" series, please consult the Series Index and for Tanks a Million, the first streamlined feature.
