Keep 'Em Flying

Keep 'Em Flying

Infobox Film | name = Keep 'Em Flying


caption = "Keep 'Em Flying" Theatrical Poster
director = Arthur Lubin
producer = Glenn Tryon
writer = True Boardman
Nat Perrin
John Grant
starring =Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Martha Raye
Dick Foran
Carol Bruce
music = Charles Previn
cinematography =
editing = Philip Cahn
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = November 28, 1941 (U.S. release)
runtime = 86 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0033781
preceded_by = Hold That Ghost (1941)
followed_by = Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)

"Keep 'Em Flying" is a 1941 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

Plot

Jinx Roberts (Dick Foran) is a stunt pilot and his assistants are Blackie (Bud Abbott) and Heathcliffe (Lou Costello). All three are fired from the carnival and air show that they work for after a disagreement. Jinx decides that he should join the Army Air Force, so they go to a nightclub to party one last time. While there Jinx falls for the club's singer, Linda Joyce (Carol Bruce). Coincidentally, she becomes a USO hostess at the same Academy that Jinx and her brother, Jimmy (Charles Lang) are enrolled at. It turns out that Jinx's instructor, Craig Morrison (William Gargan), was his co-pilot on a commercial airplane years earlier, and the two still hold animosity for each other. Meanwhile, Blackie and Heathcliffe join the air corps as ground crewman and fall in love with twin USO hostesses (Martha Raye in a dual role).

Jinx attempts to help Jimmy solo, nearly getting him killed. For his efforts, Jinx is kicked out of the corps, along with his assistants Blackie and Heathcliffe. As they are leaving, Craig gets his parachute caught on the tail end of the plane that he just jumped out of. Jinx confiscates a plane and comes to his rescue. For his heroic actions, he is allowed back into the corps.

Production

"Keep 'Em Flying" was filmed at the Cal-Aero school in Ontario, California from September 5-October 29, 1941 under the working title was "Up in the Air". Costello's brother, Pat, was used as Lou's stunt double.Although it was filmed after "Ride 'Em Cowboy", it was released first to coincide with the War Department's "Keep 'Em Flying Week".

Rerelease

*It was re-released with "Ride 'Em Cowboy" in 1949, and with "Buck Privates" in 1953.

DVD Release

External links

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