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6.2/10
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A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total
John Baer
- Young Cadet
- (uncredited)
DeWit Bishop
- Cadet
- (uncredited)
Tex Brodus
- Cadet
- (uncredited)
Wheaton Chambers
- President's Secretary
- (uncredited)
Chuck Courtney
- Plebe
- (uncredited)
Paul Cristo
- Officer
- (uncredited)
Luther Crockett
- Senator
- (uncredited)
Roy Damron
- Cadet
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsAt last minute, Jan (a female movie star) makes a surprise appearance in a role in an all-male West Point revue, in a part everyone assumed was to be played by a man. But a few minutes later there's a photo of her in closeup in the program featuring stars of the production.
- Quotes
Eve Dillon: You heel! Can't even pay a hotel bill! In debt up to your ears, and it's horses! Horses every second you're awake! Horses, horses, horses!
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby: [unapologetically] I don't drink or smoke.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Doris Day: It's Magic (1998)
- SoundtracksAlma Mater
(uncredited)
Music by Friedrich Kücken (song Treue Liebe)
Lyrics by Paul S. Reinecke
Sung by a chorus during the opening credits
Featured review
Bleh!
This one was a real disappointment. I mean with James Cagney, Doris Day, Virginia Mayo and Gene Nelson how could they go wrong! Somehow they did. Cursed with a dumb screenplay, clutzy direction, far too many stock shots of West Point and pretty sloppy rear screen projections, WEST POINT STORY just doesn't make it. Cagney is great as always, as is Doris Day, (and that the Academy has never seen fit to give her an honorary Oscar is a real crime!), but the songs they have, by Sammy Kahn and Julie Styne, no less are instantly forgettable. And to put the icing on the cake, the thing is filmed in not so glorious black and white!!! I can't believe that Jack Warner couldn't have sprung for color, but there you are! (Remember, this is the same man who passed on Julie Andrews for MY FAIR LADY!) Anyway, see it for Cagney and Doris, but otherwise give it a pass. A five..not horrible..not great...just "Bleh!"
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- Jun 1, 2007
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- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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