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Keep 'Em Flying
Keep 'Em Flying is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Martha Raye and Carol Bruce. The film was their third service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The comedy team had appeared in two previous service comedies in 1941, before the United States entered the war: Buck Privates, released in January, and In the Navy, released in May. Flying Cadets, along with Keep 'Em Flying were both produced by Universal Pictures in 1941.
Plot
Jinx Roberts, an arrogant but talented stunt pilot, and his assistants Blackie and Heathcliff, are fired from a carnival air show after a disagreement with the owner. Jinx decides to join the Army Air Corps, and he, Blackie and Heathcliff go to a nightclub to party one last time. Jinx falls for the club's singer, Linda Joyce. Coincidentally, she leaves her job to become a USO hostess at the same Academy where Jinx and her brother, Jimmy, are enrolled.
More details
| author | True Boardman |
|---|---|
| director | Arthur Lubin |
| editor | Philip Cahn |
| events | aviation |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | air show army air corps kill land stunt pilot united service organizations united states army air corps uso |
| musicBy | Charles Previn |
| producer | Glenn Tryon |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |