Dagwood accidentally enlists in the Army reserve. Blondie accompanies him to basic training camp.Dagwood accidentally enlists in the Army reserve. Blondie accompanies him to basic training camp.Dagwood accidentally enlists in the Army reserve. Blondie accompanies him to basic training camp.
Marjorie Ann Mutchie
- Cookie
- (as Marjorie Kent)
Fred Amsel
- Recruit
- (uncredited)
Cliff Clark
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
Edward Earle
- Richard Rogers
- (uncredited)
Pat Flaherty
- Recruiting Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Paul Frees
- Radio Narrator
- (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
- Mr. J. Collins
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe third of three Blondie movies to feature guest star William Frawley, following Blondie in Society (1941) (in which he plays a champion dog owner) and Blondie's Anniversary (1947) (in which he plays a loan shark).
- GoofsThe recruiting sergeant who recruits Dagwood into the Organized Reserve Corps wears the patch of the 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division on his left shoulder, indicating his current unit. (The patch is also improperly rotated 90 degrees clockwise.) The 42nd "Rainbow" Division is a National Guard unit which, while having essentially the same one weekend a month and two weeks of Annual Training schedules as Reserve units, is under a separate command structure under both Federal control and that of the home states of the subordinate units as the State Militias.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Beware of Blondie (1950)
- SoundtracksReveille
(uncredited)
Traditional
Played to awaken the corpsmen
Featured review
This is the twenty-seventh and penultimate entry in the Blondie series. While Dag's firm is being reorganized, he finds himself enlisted in weekend army basic training. Also, the house is being paid for a final time. When Dagwood makes that payment, someone overhears him and makes a deal to get him rich. What Mr. Bumstead doesn't know is he's a crook...Arthur Lake gets the lion's share of funny scenes whether trying to get someone sleeping next to him to stop snoring or accidentally driving a tank with his wife in tow. Alyn Lockwood, whose role as Mary the receptionist is usually brief in these movies, has an expanded role as someone driving the rest of the family to Dag's army base and briefly getting involved with a soldier. William Frawley makes a third appearance in the series-having previously been in Blondie in Society and Blondie's Anniversary-with the series entry director being different each time. This was also the third time I've seen Iris Adrian in a movie the past several weeks, the previous ones being Million Dollar Kid and The Stork Club. Anyway, Blondie's Hero was another funny enough entry in the series. One more to go...
Details
- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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