Sergeant Doubleday Film Series

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TANKS A MILLION (1941)

Starring William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery Jr, Joe Sawyer, Elyse Knox, Douglas Fowley Paul Page Directed by Fred Guiol

Print: black/white
Runtime: 50 min.
Genre: comedy

An Army draftee with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day.

HAY FOOT (1942)

Starring William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery Jr, Joe Sawyer, Elyse Knox, Douglas Fowley Paul Page Directed by Fred Guiol

Print: black/white
Runtime: 48 min.
Genre: comedy

Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gunshy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb (the division's shooting champions)!

ABOUT FACE (1942)

Starring William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Jean Porter, Marjorie Lord, Margaret Dumont, Veda Ann Borg Directed by Kurt Neumann

Print: black/white
Runtime: 43 min.
Genre: comedy

Two army sergeants, one dumb-tough and one mild-mannered, get into a saloon brawl, crash a high-society party, and end up in a car wreck.

FALL IN (1942)

Starring William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Robert Barrat, Jean Porter, Arthur Hunnicutt Directed by Kurt Neumann

Print: black/white
Runtime: 45 min.
Genre: comedy

Captain Gillis (Frank Faylen) puts Sergeant "Dodo" Doubleday (William Tracy), because of his photographic memory, on a candidates list for Officer's Training School ahead of Sergeant William Ames (Joe Sawyer), much to the dismay of the Ames. The latter, in an effort to make Doubleday look bad, puts him in charge of the training of the Hatfield clan, a raw-to-the-max group of recruits from Kentucky. That they are all sharp-shooters does Doubleday no harm. Meanwhile, across town, a highly-respected citizen named Arnold Benedict (Clyde Filmore) and his tall squeeze Lydia (Rebel Randall) open up an in-house canteen for the soldiers. That Arnold is a German Spy comes as no great surprise to students of American history or Hal Roach films. Joan (Jean Porter), Dodo's girl friend (and ample proof that Dodo is smarter than he looks and acts), discovers that all the house-plants in the house are armed with listening devices feeding directly to the basement where most of Hollywood's German-actor...

YANKS AHOY (1943)

Starring William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Minor Watson, Frank Faylen Directed by Kurt Neumann

Print: black/white
Runtime: 60 min.
Genre: comedy

Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

HERE COMES TROUBLE (1948)

Starring William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Emory Parnell, Betty Compson, Joan Woodbury Directed by Fred Guiol

Print: black/white
Runtime: 55 min.
Genre: comedy

A newspaper publisher (Emory Parnell) is being blackmailed by a burlesque queen (Joan Woodbury), and he sends one of his reporters (William Tracy) to talk to her. The girl is murdered and the reporter, the publisher and the publisher's daughter (Beverly Loyd) all come under suspicion.

AS YOU WERE (1951)

Starring William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Russell Hicks, John Ridgely, Sondra Rodgers Paul Page Directed by Bernard Girard

Print: black/white
Runtime: 57 min.
Genre: comedy

The photographic memory of a private is first a source of irritation and finally an asset to his sergeant.

MR. WALKIE TALKIE (1952)

Starring William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Margia Dean, Robert Shayne, Alan Hale Jr. Paul Page Directed by Fred Guiol

Print: black/white
Runtime: 65 min.
Genre: comedy

An Army sergeant (Joe Sawyer) transfers to Korea to escape another sergeant (William Tracy) who won't shut up.