Summary
A diminutive flag-waver, all brass-band bravado and star-spangled delusions, ricochets through recruitment halls like a pinball in a patriot’s fever dream; tape measures mock him, doctors snicker, destiny snarls. One comic concussion later—courtesy of a slapstick skylight—his scalp sprouts a goose-egg that nudges him past the Army’s arbitrary inch, and suddenly the nation’s defender is the same runt who yesterday couldn’t see over a trench wall. Parallel, his whip-smart sweetheart trades flapper fringe for government credentials, vowing to cloak her counter-espionage in silence, yet every syllable she utters billboards her mission to the kaiser’s slickest spooks. Between pratfall enlistment drills and drawing-room eavesdrops, the couple’s trajectories braid into a burlesque of loyalty, loopholes, and love letters stamped TOP SECRET but read aloud in beer halls.
Synopsis
A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough for him to pass the height requirement. Meanwhile, his lady friend decides to become a Secret Service agent, though she is unable to keep the fact a secret, even from the German spies she hopes to apprehend.
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