After years of toil in vaudeville and summer camps, Danny Kaye enjoyed a career surge engineered by his talented and ambitious wife, Sylvia Fine, who wrote most of the tongue-twisting songs that helped to make him such a success. This was his feature film debut and, if a story about a hypochondriac who joins the US Army in World War II and is captured and tortured doesn't sound a likely basis for comedy, you just haven't got the Goldwyn spirit. The whole troopship, for example, is festooned with sunbathing Goldwyn Girls, who include Virginia Mayo, soon to become Danny's leading lady.


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