Doughboys (1930 film)

Doughboys
Directed by	Edward Sedgwick
Written by	Al Boasberg; Richard Schayer; Sidney Lazarus
Starring	Buster Keaton; Sally Eilers; Cliff Edwards; Edward Brophy
Music by	William Axt
Cinematography	Leonard Smith
Edited by	William LeVanway
Production; company	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Distributed by	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release date	August 30, 1930
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Doughboys is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was Keaton's second starring talkie vehicle.[1] A Spanish-language version was also made under the title, De Frente, Marchen.

Plot

Elmer (Buster Keaton), a member of the idle rich, is smitten by working girl Mary (Sally Eilers), who will have nothing to do with him. When Elmer's chauffeur gets caught up in an army recruitment drive and quits, Elmer goes to an employment agency to find a new driver and accidentally enlists in the army. Elmer learns that Mary is on the base to entertain the troops and learns that his drill sergeant, Brophy (Edward Brophy), is also interested in Mary.

Cast

Buster Keaton as Elmer
Sally Eilers as Mary
Cliff Edwards as Nescopeck
Edward Brophy as Sgt. Brophy
Victor Potel as Svendenburg
Arnold Korff as Gustav
Frank Mayo as Captain Scott
Pitzy Katz as Abie Cohn
William Steele as Lieutenant Randolph
Edward Sedgwick as Guggleheimer the Camp Cook (uncredited)

Reception

Keaton had creative input in Doughboys, which was partly inspired by his own experience in World War I. Although the writers kept inserting puns and verbal jokes into the script, Keaton insisted that his dialogue, at least, be less "jokey."[2] Keaton felt that Doughboys was the best of the films he made for MGM.[1]

gollark: Is it... not the other way round, since TVs are further away?

gollark: They're "smart" now and therefore evil.

gollark: I don't like TVs.

gollark: No.

gollark: I play minecraft on one and it works fine.

References

Neibaur, James L. (2010). The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for M-G-M, Educational Pictures, and Columbia. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8108-7682-8.
Doughboys, TCM.

External links

Doughboys on IMDb
Doughboys at AllMovie
Doughboys at the TCM Movie Database
Doughboys at the American Film Institute Catalog
Doughboys at the International Buster Keaton Society

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[neibaur-1] Neibaur, James L. (2010). The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for M-G-M, Educational Pictures, and Columbia. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8108-7682-8.

[2] Doughboys, TCM.