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Follow the Boys
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2hrs 2min
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1944
Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act just scraping by in the latter days of vaudeville. With job opportunities drying up on the East Coast, Tony persuades the family to take their chances in California, and for once luck is with him. Not long ... Full Synopsis
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Every Hollywood studio turned out one or more war-time revues like Follow the Boys, entertainments built around a wispy plot that should really have been jettisoned altogether for all the good it ever did. In the case of Boys, it's a particularly annoying one, with a fabricated crisis -- dancer is afraid to admit to his girl that he has a knee injury that makes him unfit for armed service -- that is ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Tony West, Hoofer
Gloria Vance, dancer
Walter Bruce
Nick West
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