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Tanks a Million is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Fred Guiol released in USA on 12 september 1941 with William Tracy
Tanks a Million (1941)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 september 1941
Length 50minutes
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Rating58%
Tanks a Million is a 1941 American film directed by Fred Guiol. It was the first of Hal Roach's Streamliners, short films under an hour designed for the lower half of a double feature. The film was also the first pairing of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer in a film series of the two in the military. Despite the title and military setting, no tanks are seen in the film.
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Dorian Doubleday, "Dodo" to his friends, works as a clerk at a railway station but he has the ability of photographic memory. When he is drafted in the Army, he memorizes all the manuals for Army procedure immediately before starting his service.Actors
William Tracy
(Sgt. Dorian 'Dodo' Doubleday)
James Gleason
(Col. 'Spitfire' Barkley)
Noah Beery, Jr
(Charlie Cobb)
Joe Sawyer
(Sgt. William Ames)
Elyse Knox
(Jeannie)
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