pixrox1 Review of You'll Never Get Rich

You'll Never Get Rich (1941)

Back when Uncle Sam wore a "hit me" sign . . .

[6/10 · 14 January 2014]

. . . on his back in Hollywood's antebellum military farces such as YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH (1941), is it any wonder that Hirohito, Hitler & Co. hit us shortly after this flick was leaked to the world? Though Fred "Crazy Legs" Astaire has switched branches from the Navy (FOLLOW THE FLEET, 1936) to the Army in YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH, he's still an enlisted man with a penchant for decking officers, seemingly with impunity. Though he spends most of the running time of YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH in the "guard house," this military "jail" consists of a dance floor with a few benches scattered along the walls. As in FLEET, there are no consequences whenever Fred feels like going A.W.O.L., since Hollywood's version of the U.S. Military is a total joke. The only reason the sailors at Pearl Harbor weren't laughing at Fred's shenanigans as Hirohito's bombs started to rain down on them is that the Japanese Zeroes delivered their torpedoes more accurately during sunrise church services than they could have in the darkness of Saturday movie night.