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When Johnny Comes Marching Home
“FORWARD MARCH! for romance...rhythm...and fun!”
70%
Movie
1h 14m
AI Analysis
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942) — a movie tagged as Music with balanced tone moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader P… Our models also surface themes such as love and war from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~74 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate When Johnny Comes Marching Home 70% (2 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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from 2 TMDb votes
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Synopsis
By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader Phil Spitalny and his all-girl aggregation, including the inimitable Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. When Army officials trace Johnny to the boarding house, his new friends assume that he's a deserter and try to convince him to return to duty.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1942-12-24
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- TMDB rating
- 7.0
- TMDB ID
- 391492
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By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation hea... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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How long is the movie When Johnny Comes Marching Home?
The official runtime for When Johnny Comes Marching Home is approximately 74 minutes.
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Cast
Allan Jones
Johnny Kovacs aka Johnny O'Rourke
Jane Frazee
Joyce Benton
Gloria Jean
Marilyn Benton
Donald O'Connor
Frankie Flanagan
Peggy Ryan
Dusty
Paul Everton
Speaker (uncredited)
Grace Hayes
Orchestra Violinist
Richard Davies
Lt. Tommy Bridges
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Maceo Anderson
One of the Four Step Brothers tap dancing act.
Clyde Fillmore
Hamilton Wellman
Marla Shelton
Diana Wellman
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