Keep 'Em Flying

Keep 'Em Flying. 1941 Universal Pictures.
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Dick Foran, Carol Bruce, Charles Lang, William Gargan
Director: Arthur Lubin
Available as part of Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection.

Stunt pilot Jinx Roberts (Foran) and his two assistants Blackie (Abbott) and Heathcliffe (Costello) are fired from a carnival after a disagreement with their boss. Jinx opts to join the Army Air Force, and the three pals go to a nightclub to celebrate one last time, where Jinx falls in love with the club's singer Linda Joyce (Bruce). Linda also becomes a USO hostess around the same time at the academy that Jinx and his brother Jimmy (Lang) have enrolled at. Their instructor is Craig Morrison, who co-piloted commercial airliners with Jinx before the war, and they still can't stand one another. Blackie and Heathcliffe also sign up as ground crewmen, falling in love with a pair of twin USO hostesses (Raye, in a double role), although Heathcliffe is unaware that his girl has a twin sister!

After a serious mishap involving Jinx and Jimmy, everyone is kicked out of the corps. But, a timely mishap involving Craig and a parachute may be the ticket for everyone to be allowed back in, no questions asked.

Recommended movie, although it wasn't the best Abbott and Costello movie I've watched this year...