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    Jumping Jacks (1952)

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    Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith (Jerry Lewis) has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen (Dean Martin) joined the army, with lovely new partner Betsy Carter (Mona Freeman).

    Chick – who is now a paratrooper – is organising a talent show at Fort Benning, Georgia, and finds he needs his old partner’s help when the ‘real’ talent in the army is found sadly lacking.

    Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, Dogface Dolan (Richard Erdman) but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized snafu.

    Men of the real 508th Airborne were used in several scenes.

    Cpl. Chick Allen
    Dean Martin
    Hap Smith
    Jerry Lewis
    Betsy Carter
    Mona Freeman
    Lt. Kelsey
    Don DeFore
    Sgt. McClusky
    Robert Strauss
    Pvt. Dogface Dolan
    Richard Erdman
    Brig. Gen. W.W. Timmons
    Ray Teal
    Julia Loring
    Marcy McGuire
    Pvt. Evans
    Danny Arnold

    Director
    Norman Taurog

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