For the first half of the opening song, "Beans", Alvin has a bandage on his finger (left hand, middle finger).
Halfway through the song, the bandage disappears.
In the scene where Sgt.
McVay is checking for dust, he wipes his dirty fingers on Corwin's shirt, leaving a dirty smudge.
On the next shot, Corwin's shirt is clean again.
"At War with the Army" is an early teaming of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. It has some of the slapstick that is always part of Lewis's roles.
It's hard now to imagine how popular this comedy team was around 1950. Everyone with a television set seemed tuned in to their Colgate Comedy Hour in which the routines were usually similar: the silly Jerry Lewis was Lou Costello and the self-confident Dean Martin was Bud Abbott.
Martin & Lewis's first headline movie sees them establish a leaden formula that they would repeat for most of the '50s. Womanising Martin glowers while Lewis pulls faces, and all that's missing is Martin's martini.
Just rewatched this Martin & Lewis movie on YouTube. This was their first one as the only stars having previously had to share billing with others on their previous two: My Friend Irma and My Friend Irma Goes West.
This was to me one of the funniest movies ever that Dean and Jerry made together. They were absolutely great together sort of like a big brother, little brother relationship that actually worked well on screen for both them playing off of each others weaknesses and strengths.
This is Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' first STARRING film--some reviews have said that this was their first film, though this was "My Friend Irma" from the previous year and "My Friend Irma Goes West" came out a few months before "At War With the Army". Because it was such an early film, the style and chemistry of the movie certainly isn't what you might expect for the team.
'At War With The Army' starts off a bit messy and much of the humour feels a little dated. The first half hour is a little out of place but some of the jokes get you through it.
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had been a team since 1946 and had already appeared together in two movies in supporting roles: in "My Friend Irma" and My Friend Irma Goes West." Lewis and Martin were so popular with moviegoers n both pictures that they were giving starring roles in this movie.
It was a long time after I'd watched Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in individual vehicles that I learned about their early career team up. Both are so widely disparate in temperament and personality that the combination seems implausible.
