Komedie, USA, 1952, 87 min.



At the end of World War II, reluctant soldier Joe convinces his pal Willie to sign up for the Inactive Reserve in order to obtain early discharges. When they are recalled to active duty only months later, however, Willie is furious. Within weeks of rejoining the service, Joe has a new plan to obtain discharges by faking injuries. After convincing the Army doctors that Willie has lost his hearing and Joe his eyesight, however, Joe insists that they join their old troop buddies for drinks that night. During their cavorting, they start a bar fight and are arrested, after which Col. Harkins tears up their discharges and sends them to Japan to repeat basic training. In Tokyo at Camp Drake, Sgt. Rose treats the wily veterans roughly, requiring them to lead their troop in various physical endurance tests. When the friends learn that they will soon be separated, they pretend not to care but are saddened. Joe then realizes that they can volunteer for the Quartermaster Corps in order to stay together, but when they do so, they are immediately assigned to be test subjects for a series of torturous equipment tryouts. After several grueling weeks on the job, they are finally rewarded with a one-week leave permit to Tokyo. Their uniforms, however, have become so filthy during their assignment that they cannot enter the city without being arrested by M.P.s. Knowing this, Joe nonetheless drags Willie onto a city-bound bus, and they spend their first afternoon in Tokyo running from the police. Eventually they steal an M.P. jeep and take it to the Emperor's palace. Spotted there, they narrowly escape when a Japanese woman named Nida ushers them into her limousine. Although Willie mistrusts her, Joe, an inveterate womanizer, is so taken by her beauty that he agrees to meet her later. She drops them off, suggesting that they visit a nearby club to clean up. When they go there, however, they find that the club is for officers only, so Joe pays the rickshaw driver to show them the back door. While they bathe, they are identified as enlisted men and disguise themselves as geishas to escape. Just as they are about to be trapped by the back door, the doorman hears them mention Nida's name and shows them a secret passage to a private room. There, they are greeted by Nida's friend, dapper American Johnny Redondo, who invites them to his home. They drink all evening, and when Johnny drops them off at the Servicemen's Club, they are promptly arrested for intoxication. Maj. Lester Ormsby, who remembers them from the fracas at the officers' club, sends them to Gen. Dixon to be disciplined. The general orders the pair locked up until he hears them mention Johnny, after which he drops all charges. After they leave, Dixon, who has been trying to arrest Johnny for smuggling explosives, orders his staff to follow Willie and Joe, who will unknowingly act as bait. Later that day, the freshly laundered soldiers are brought to Johnny's. The smuggler lies to Willie and Joe that his crab meat shipments have been repeatedly hijacked on their way to his private airport. When Nida suggests that only an Army truck could travel the roads without being hijacked, Willie and Joe volunteer to steal an Army truck and make the delivery for Johnny. The next day, Ormsby discovers them stealing a truck and arrests them, only to be severely reprimanded by Dixon and forced to release them. Dixon's men follow as Willie and Joe drive the truck, loaded with crates, to the airport, but when the soliders notice the police following them, they assume the car contains hijackers. After leading the police on a wild chase, they are pulled over by Ormsby, who recognizes them and, fearing retribution from Dixon, lets them go. Moments later, however, Dixon catches up to Ormsby and, upon hearing that he let the truck escape, demotes the major to sergeant. Meanwhile, Willie and Joe make it to the airport, where Johnny and Nida take off with the crates, hurriedly leaving some cans behind. Just then, the police arrive and inform Willie and Joe that Johnny is a smuggler. Furious, Willie hurls a can at the plane, and when it explodes, the plane is grounded. As the police arrest Johnny, Dixon promises to discharge Willie and Joe on the condition that they never return to Japan.
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