Keep 'Em Flying

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Keep 'Em Flying
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Keep 'Em Flying Theatrical Poster
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Produced by Glenn Tryon
Written by True Boardman
Nat Perrin
John Grant
Starring Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Martha Raye
Dick Foran
Carol Bruce
Music by Charles Previn
Editing by Philip Cahn
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) November 28, 1941 (U.S. release)
Running time 86 min
Language English
Preceded by Hold That Ghost (1941)
Followed by Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
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Keep 'Em Flying is a 1941 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

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[edit] Plot

Jinx Roberts (Dick Foran) is a stunt pilot and his assistants are Blackie (Bud Abbott) and Heathcliffe (Lou Costello). All three are fired from the carnival and air show that they work for after a disagreement. Jinx decides that he should join the army air corps, so they go to a nightclub to party one last time. While there Jinx falls for the club's singer, Linda Joyce (Carol Bruce). Coincidentally, she becomes a USO hostess at the same Academy that Jinx and her brother, Jimmy (Charles Lang) are enrolled at. It turns out that Jinx's instructor, Craig Morrison (William Gargan), was his co-pilot on a commerial airplane years earlier, and the two still hold animosity for each other. Meanwhile, Blackie and Heathcliffe join the air corps as ground crewman and fall in love with twin USO hostesses (Martha Raye in a dual role).

Jinx attempts to help Jimmy solo, nearly getting him killed. For his efforts, Jinx is kicked out of the corps, along with his assistants Blackie and Heathcliffe. As they are leaving, Craig gets his parachute caught on the tail end of the plane that he just jumped out of. Jinx confiscates a plane and comes to his rescue. For his heroic actions, he is allowed back into the corps.

[edit] Production

Keep 'Em Flying was filmed at the Cal-Aero school in Ontario, California from September 5-October 29, 1941 under the working title was Up in the Air. Costello's brother, Pat, was used as Lou's stunt double. Although it was filmed after Ride 'Em Cowboy, it was released first to coincide with the War Department's Keep 'Em Flying Week.

[edit] Rerelease

[edit] DVD Release

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February 10, 2004

[edit] External links

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Abbott and Costello
One Night in the Tropics • Buck Privates • In the Navy • Hold That Ghost • Keep 'Em Flying • Ride 'Em Cowboy • Rio Rita • Pardon My Sarong • Who Done It? • It Ain't Hay • Hit the Ice • In Society • Lost in a Harem • Here Come the Co-Eds • The Naughty Nineties • Abbott and Costello in Hollywood • Little Giant • The Time of Their Lives • Buck Privates Come Home • The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap • The Noose Hangs High • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein • Mexican Hayride • Africa Screams • Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff • Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion • Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man • Comin' Round the Mountain • Jack and the Beanstalk • Lost in Alaska • Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd • Abbott and Costello Go to Mars • Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops • Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy • Dance with Me Henry • The World of Abbott and Costello
Lou Costello solo film: The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
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