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Deux nigauds aviateurs

Original title: Keep 'Em Flying
  • 1941
  • Approved
  • 1h 26m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
1.8K
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Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Martha Raye in Deux nigauds aviateurs (1941)
Comedy

When a barnstorming stunt pilot joins the Air Corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.When a barnstorming stunt pilot joins the Air Corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.When a barnstorming stunt pilot joins the Air Corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.

  • Directors
    • Arthur Lubin
    • Ralph Ceder
  • Writers
    • True Boardman
    • Nat Perrin
    • John Grant
  • Stars
    • Bud Abbott
    • Lou Costello
    • Martha Raye
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    1.8K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Arthur Lubin
      • Ralph Ceder
    • Writers
      • True Boardman
      • Nat Perrin
      • John Grant
    • Stars
      • Bud Abbott
      • Lou Costello
      • Martha Raye
    • 30User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Bud Abbott
    Bud Abbott
    • Blackie Benson
    Lou Costello
    Lou Costello
    • Heathcliff
    Martha Raye
    Martha Raye
    • Gloria Phelps…
    Carol Bruce
    Carol Bruce
    • Linda Joyce
    William Gargan
    William Gargan
    • Craig Morrison
    Dick Foran
    Dick Foran
    • Jinx Roberts
    Charles Lang
    Charles Lang
    • Jim Joyce
    William B. Davidson
    William B. Davidson
    • Gonigle
    • (as William Davidson)
    Truman Bradley
    Truman Bradley
    • Butch
    Loring Smith
    Loring Smith
    • Major Barstow
    William Forrest
    William Forrest
    • Colonel
    Freddie Slack
    Freddie Slack
    • Pianist
    The Six Hits
    • Singing Group
    Marvin Bailey
    • Member of The Six Hits
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Crane
    Richard Crane
    • Cadet Stevens
    • (uncredited)
    Harold Daniels
    • Announcer
    • (uncredited)
    Dorothy Darrell
    Dorothy Darrell
    • USO Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Vince Degen
    • Member of The Six Hits
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Arthur Lubin
      • Ralph Ceder
    • Writers
      • True Boardman
      • Nat Perrin
      • John Grant
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    8hitchcockthelegend

    Chocks and chortles away!

    Out of Universal Pictures comes Keep 'Em Flying starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello with support from Martha Raye, Dick Foran and Carol Bruce. It's directed by Arthur Lubin with music by Charles Previn and was filmed on location at the Cal-Aero school in Ontario, California. Plot sees the bumbling duo and their stunt pilot pal Jinx Roberts (Foran) join the Army Air Force after getting fired from their positions at a carnival & air show. High jinx and love interests will of course follow.

    The fifth film outing for Abbott and Costello, and their third featuring the armed forces after Buck Privates & In The Navy, Keep 'Em Flying is one of their better feature length productions. Tho somewhat surprisingly rather thick on plot, the piece is all the better for some narrative substance in that it lets us savour the slaphappy antics of the intrepid duo when their routines come alive. Action sequences to savour here include a runaway torpedo, a spooky carnival fun house and a short sharp shock treatment of Lou falling over his ankle grabbing pants. While there's quality in a dialogue driven skit that the boys perform in a Café-where we are introduced to the bright and bubbly Raye; playing twin sisters who each end up dating the boys. There's also some nice tunes penned by Don Raye & Gene de Paul, with the stand out being "Pig Foot Pete" that was famously nominated for an Academy Award but for the wrong movie (Hellzapoppin').

    Funny, daft and even romantic, Keep 'Em Flying soars high enough to entertain the masses. 8/10
    8tavm

    Abbott & Costello get into high gear in Keep 'Em Flying

    Before rewatching this movie on YouTube, I watched a 9-minute short called Life with the Flying Cadets which was basically a trailer for this film as it shows many scenes from it especially the ones with stars Abbott & Costello. It basically told of the value of those men training to fly for whatever awaits them. Now Keep 'Em Flying was the second A & C movie I saw as an 11- or 12-year-old kid in 1979 when it showed up on TV late Saturday night on "The Abbott & Costello Theatre" which was devoted to showcasing all their Universal product. The first was Hold That Ghost. Anyway, here Blackie (Abbott) and Heathcliff (Costello) are associates of daredevil flyer Jinx Roberts (Dick Foran who had also appeared with Bud and Lou in In the Navy and Ride 'Em Cowboy) who all get fired from the fair and they all swear off women but then they go to a nightclub where singer Linda Joyce (Carol Bruce) is performing her last engagement before going to the USO. Of course, Jinx is smitten with her and ends up working near her at a cadet training center. Blackie and Heathcliff follow and encounter two waitresses at a cafe there but since they're twins-Barbara and Gloria (both Martha Raye)-and they don't appear together when they all meet, confusion reigns! I'll just now say that this was even more funny now than when I first saw this all those years ago, that's for sure! I especially thought that routine in which the Abbott character tells the Costello character to not make any orders since they're short on money and he's offering to share his order only for Costello to renege quickly because Abbott keeps insisting he order something was much better than a similar routine Laurel & Hardy did in Men O'War which was my last review before this one. Speaking of L & H, the producer of this picture was Glenn Tryon who was previously an actor who, among his earlier appearances, was in the short 45 Minutes from Hollywood which was the first time Stan & Ollie were in the same Hal Roach short-having first previously appeared together in The Lucky Dog for another company-though they missed actually being together in that one. And if the names of Carol Bruce and Martha Raye are familiar to you, you probably saw them in their later years during the late '70s when Ms. Bruce had a recurring role as Mama Carlson in "WKRP in Cincinnati" and Ms. Raye likewise had such a role as Mel Sharple's mom in "Alice"! A few more things about this movie: I thought the moving torpedo and the standing-on-the-wing-of-a-flying-plane sequences involving Lou were partly convincing enough to me to excuse the obvious use of moving background projection (it should be noted that Pat, Lou's brother, was the stunt double for these segments), that the serious parts of the Jinx storyline was fine with me, and that the musical interludes were entertaining enough especially Carol and Martha's "The Boy with the Wistful Eyes" number. So that's a high recommendation of Keep 'Em Flying. Oh, and continuing my reviews of A & C and L & H doing similar movies, my next one will be on the latter's Our Relations in which Stan and Ollie have their own set of twins encountering mistaken identity...
    6jimtinder

    Weakest of their 1941 efforts

    Their fourth starring vehicle of 1941, "Keep 'Em Flying" shows the wear and tear of the duo's busy year. The films production values are more skimpy; evidently by filming on location at Cal-Aero in Ontario, California, the producers felt they could cut costs. This doesn't help A&C's flying sequences with their poor rear projection or the rescue sequence at the end, with all-too-obvious miniatures. The real flying stunt sequences sandwiched around them, however, are done well.

    What saves the film are A&C's performances and the interplay between Costello and Martha Raye, who plays twins in the film. There are some truly funny moments, but not enough to elevate the film among their best. 6 out of 10.
    bob the moo

    Solid A&C film but only funny in a couple of scenes

    When high-flying stunt pilot Jinx Roberts joins the air corps, his two assistants Blackie and Heathcliff follow him into the service out of loyalty and lack of other options. While Jinx gets a pilot's position they find themselves essentially at the level of janitors with little in the way of glamour or prestige. They end up causing more trouble than anything else – not least of which in the world of romance where the attention of twins Gloria and Barbara causes more confusion.

    This film was part of several made in a short period by Abbott & Costello in support of the war effort and the structure is roughly the same. A "straight" guy pursues a girl while Abbott and Costello trail along behind getting involved in various escapades and misunderstandings in support of the "straight" guy's romantic efforts. This should not surprise anyone and the only thing of concern should be whether or not the film is funny and makes good use of the comic abilities of the stars (by which I do not mean Foran). The answer is "sort of" and it is because of this that the film is quite amusing for fans but not good enough to really win over others or stand out as one of their best. The plot with Jinx does take up a bit too much of the running time and, as is often the case, the film is padded out with too many songs (although at least one of them is actually pretty good) and I didn't find myself laughing often enough. There are some good bits though; the scene where they order food in the restaurant is brilliant stuff and had me laughing out loud but, a few good lines here and there and that is pretty much it. The torpedo sequence is the normal stuff but lacks inspiration while the flight stuff, although quite good suffers badly from poor back projection and basic model work – OK both are of their time but still.

    The cast do reasonably well and the fault for the film perhaps being a bit lacking is not with their performances. Both Abbott and Costello do good work as you would expect but it is just a shame that they don't get better material to work with. What they do benefit from is a female co-star who isn't just a cute love interest for Costello. Raye plays it in a way that echoes Costello's style but it does work and she is funny and adds a bit of variety which is needed when you consider the "main" plot. Bruce, Gargan and Foran are all fairly dull and stiff – again it is a shame that they take so much of the time from the others.

    Keep 'em Flying is an OK Abbott & Costello film that has enough about it to please most fans however it is still not as funny as it should be and it has too much stuff that either pads (the songs) or detracts (the main plot). If you like them it is worth a look but only a few scenes here and there show what the two are capable of.
    8skallisjr

    Up We Go, Though Not Way Up.

    Not their best, but by far not their weakest, the film provides the viewers with the duo in the Army Air Corps, or at least a training facility.

    While there has been some comment on the wood and fabric airplanes in the film, filmed shortly before the U.S. got involved in World War II, many training facilities taught their students initially on such aircraft, just so they could learn the rudiments of flight. Later, the fledgling pilots would graduate to more state-of-the-art trainers.

    Minor spoiler For the aero gags, the fabric airplanes worked well: in the "inverted" sequence, Costello's head wouldn't have been able to break through a metal skin.

    I had this on VHS, and finally was able to locate it on DVD, in an A&C collection.

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    • Trivia
      The original trailer was a one-reel recruitment short, running about nine minutes, for the Army Air Corps which included clips from this film.
    • Goofs
      When Benson and Heathcliff's plane lands, it is without landing gear in an area where no planes are near. When Heathcliff gets out of the plane, it is upright, indicating that landing gear is present, and other planes surround theirs.
    • Quotes

      Blackie Benson: No, you don't want to drink. Remember, every time you go into a barroom, the Devil goes in with you.

      Heathcliff: If he does, he buys his own drink.

    • Connections
      Edited into Les aventures de quatre élèves pilotes (1943)
    • Soundtracks
      Let's Keep 'Em Flying
      (1941)

      Lyrics by Don Raye

      Music by Gene de Paul

      Played during the opening and end credits

      Sung by Dick Foran (uncredited) and servicemen

      Reprised by Carol Bruce (uncredited) and chorus near the end

      Played as background music often

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    • Release date
      • July 21, 1948 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Keep 'Em Flying
    • Filming locations
      • Cal-Aero Academy, Chino Airport - 7000 Merrill Avenue, Chino, California, USA(Cal-Aero Academy closed 1944; airport called Cal-Aero Field when filmed)
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 26 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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