oscaralbert Review of Three Cheers for the Girls

Three Cheers for the Girls (1943)

America must send in the Marines to stop the "Flora Dora Chorus" . . .

[7/10 · 23 April 2015]

. . . as it threatens to replace Real Life with scary geometric phalanxes of lingerie-clad singing chicks in attack formations. Whether these women are wielding bugles, drums, white flags, harps, grand pianos, or Hawaiian leis, they are a clear threat to Life as We Know It. When you crown 100 ladies with blonde George Washington wigs, and round out their attire with a few feathers and G-strings, what guy could watch and get to work on time the next morning? No doubt on orders from the Top Brass, the final two and a half minutes of this schizophrenic 16-minute short segue abruptly into a total military sausage fest. An all-male chorus in U.S. Marine uniforms intones the Marine Hymn as amphibious landing training exercises fill the screen. One can only conclude that THREE CHEERS FOR THE GIRLS was some sort of psychological warfare foray orchestrated by the War Department's Military Intelligence unit in mid-WWII. This piece was intended to show the Axis Powers that a nation capable of foisting off such a Sex & War Mish-Mash upon the World would be capable of anything--up to and including dropping A-Bombs!