Snafu

Snafu

85 mins | Comedy | Nov. 22, 1945

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.

Snafu

85 mins | Comedy | Nov. 22, 1945

Snafu
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Snafu
Directors Jack Moss
Writers Louis Solomon, Harold Buchman

Cast

Robert Benchley

as Ben Stevens

Barbara Jo Allen

as Madge Stevens

Conrad Janis

as Ronald Stevens

Nanette Parks

as Laura Jessup

Janis Wilson

as Kate Hereford

Jimmy Lloyd

as Danny Baker

Enid Markey

as Aunt Emily

Marcia Mae Jones

as Martha

Byron Foulger

as Phil Ford

Eva Puig

as Josephina

Ray Mayer

as Detective

Winfield Smith

as Col. West

John Souther

as Taylor

Kathleen Howard

as Dean Garrett