The first of the trilogy of "les artilleurs" (reservists coming back for a couple of weeks of training) ; "trois artilleurs à l'opera" and "trois artilleurs en vadrouille " would follow , all in the thirties where the coarse comedy showing the pleasures(?) of the military service was rampant.
The first third is business as usual :life in the barracks with grumpy warrant officers and officers .
Things go better when the three squaddies, after a pub crawl , takes a boarding-school for girls for their barracks which is next to it. To escape from the militaries hot on their heels , they are forced to take the place of three mistresses ,three spinsters .It's heavy -handed ,but it spawns funny situations ,although it never equals "fanfare d'amour" (which bears more than a little resemblance to "some like it hot" ); the old maids dressed up as soldiers is a good idea too .Pierre Larquey and Jeanne Fusier-Gir are the stand-outs ;future star Odette Joyeux plays one of the student.
Thoroughly implausible, but as mad as a hatter.
