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Army Champions

  • 1941
  • Approved
  • 11m
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6.0/10
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Army Champions (1941)
DocumentaryShort

This MGM short, part of the A Pete Smith Specialty series, focuses on the young men who have signed up to serve their country. Speed, teamwork and accuracy are the hallmark of all army units... Read allThis MGM short, part of the A Pete Smith Specialty series, focuses on the young men who have signed up to serve their country. Speed, teamwork and accuracy are the hallmark of all army units and this is demonstrated by different army squads - a rifle squad, a machine gun squad, a... Read allThis MGM short, part of the A Pete Smith Specialty series, focuses on the young men who have signed up to serve their country. Speed, teamwork and accuracy are the hallmark of all army units and this is demonstrated by different army squads - a rifle squad, a machine gun squad, a mortar squad, anti-tank gunners and shore batteries - all of which work with the fluidity... Read all

  • Director
    • Paul Vogel
  • Writer
    • Julian Harmon
  • Star
    • Pete Smith
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.0/10
    165
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    • Director
      • Paul Vogel
    • Writer
      • Julian Harmon
    • Star
      • Pete Smith
    • 1User review
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 1 nomination total

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      • Paul Vogel
    • Writer
      • Julian Harmon
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    6boblipton

    Speed, Teamwork, Accuracy

    Pete Smith doesn't display much of his trademark snark in this Academy-Award-nominated short, in which he tries to convince the audience that the sort of physical training that American youths got in high school sports will enable them to fight in the forthcoming war.

    1941 saw the first peacetime draft -- my father went into the army well before Pearl Harbor -- and all the studios were preparing for war by turning out short propaganda pieces like this. The Academy was responding by handing out a lot of Oscars for non-fiction short subjects.

    Pete offers some straightforward information, a couple of jokes and a bit of double-talk, in which Bouncing Betties become Leaping Elizabeths. It's fast, it's furious and the visuals are all undercranked to make the recruits look faster and more formidable. Very slick.

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      Pete Smith: And so, with every tick of the clock, Uncle Sam develops the natural speed, teamwork and accuracy of his soldiers - fighting men, endowed with a heritage of bravery that brilliantly marks the pages of history.

    • Soundtracks
      America
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      aka "My Country 'tis of Thee"

      Music from "God Save the King"

      Traditional

      Performed by studio orchestra

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    • Release date
      • October 11, 1941 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • A Pete Smith Specialty: Army Champions
    • Production company
      • Loew's
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      11 minutes

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