Time moves awful slowly in the company of this feeble 1941 Bob Hope comedy about a cowardly film star who accidentally enlists in the US Army in his efforts to woo a colonel's daughter.
Hope, of course,plays the coward and Dorothy Lamour the object of his affections. Sadly there's no Bing Crosby and no good or even corny jokes. The whole film has the feel of a project that was hastily thrown together to cash in on the then topical issue of hundreds of thousands of men being drafted as the USA ramped up for war.
Poorly written and unimaginatively directed with unenthusiastic performances CAUGHT IN THE DRAFT is an ordeal for even the most ardent Bob Hope fan. For those of us who find a little Hope goes a very long way the film is almost unwatchable.
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