this be one of my favourite alan ladd film and one i can watch over and over have some great one liner . it show that ladd be very good at comedy and it a shame he do not do more my favourite line be where his lawyer say he try to get him out of the army draft a 4f which mean socially undesirable ladd isn not impressed and with an indignant shrug of his shoulder say whadaya mean socially undesirable . dame like me . ladd play lucky who be a charming and good look and very successful racketeer who be try to avoid the draft . however even with the drunk old bag ( lucky word ) pretend to be his dependent ma he be call up . so he end up in the army but after a spell in the cooler for insubordination he escape by nick the car and coat of an army scientist along with and inadvertently and secret tank drawing . it then transpire that lucky sidekick slip moran have get involve with foreign spy who will pay a fortune for the tank plan . what follow be a tale of double dealing ( by slip ) and romantic entanglement with helen walker ( cute eye a lucky call her ) and lucky partial redemption when he realise just how bad the nazi be ( when they beat up his ma ) . there be a really good chase scene when the baddie be after lucky in the garden . lucky of course do the right thing in the end but he isn not overly gushy about why and there aren not any long winded patriotic speech he just doesn not like men who beat up old woman . the film end on a funny note too because despite be a good guy and go back to the army a hero and the film end with lucky back in the cooler for yet another act of insubordination make it clear that even his goodness or patriotism have it limit . all in all a funny and entertaining film with a great cast .