We’ve Never Been Licked (1943)

Action, Drama, General Film, Missing Trailer

Director: John Rawlins

Writer(s): Norman Reilly Raine, Nick Grinde

Starring: Richard Quine, Anne Gwynne, Martha O’Driscoll, Noah Beery Jr., William Frawley, William Blees, Harry Davenport, Edgar Barrier, Samuel S. Hinds, Mantan Moreland, Moroni Olsen, Roland Got, Allen Jung, Robert Mitchum, Alfredo DeSa, Bill Stern, George Putnam, Mary Jess Banks, Dean Benton, Walter Bonn, Kendall Bryson, Dick Chandlee, Franco Corsaro, Worth Crouch, Roger Daniel, Paul Dubov, Jack Edwards Jr., John Forrest, John Frazer, Herbert Gunn, Richard Gunn, Eddie Hall, Henry Hall, Alex Havier, Danny Jackson, John James, Paul Langton, Billy Lechner, Bob Lowell, Kenneth MacDonald, Don McGill, Sammy McKim, Malcolm ‘Bud’ McTaggart, Michael Moore, Dick Morris, Bill Nash, Jack Ray, Cliff Robertson, Henry Rogers, William Ruhl, David Street, Frank Tang, Michael Towne, William Walker, Phil Warren, Byron Winstead, Beal Wong, Bruce Wong, Ward Wood, Gordon Wynn, Willie Zapalec

Synopsis: WWII morale film for Texas A&M graduates fighting overseas. Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which Mitchum and other upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor’s beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate, played by Noah Beery. In the meantime, Craig associates with Japanese spies bent on stealing a secret chemical compound being worked on a the University. But is he one of them, or a double agent for his country?

Release Date: August 30, 1943 (USA) | Length: 103 min | Genre: Action, Drama | Certificate: Approved

Note: Missing trailer. Above is a clip from the film. Mantan Moreland is only in this film for a brief moment. He plays Willie, the Lambert’s cook, but he has no speaking lines and can only be seen in the background.