We've Never Been Licked is a World War II propaganda

Propaganda

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 film produced by Walter Wanger

Walter Wanger

Walter Wanger was an American film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a...

 and released by United Artists

United Artists

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. Parts of the movie were shot on location at the Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

 campus. Released in the UK under the title, "Texas to Tokyo"; re-released in the US under "Fighting Command".

Synopsis

Army brat Brad Craig enters A&M with a chip on his shoulder which 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. In the meantime, Craig unwittingly associates with Japanese spies (one played by William Frawley

William Frawley

William Clement "Bill" Frawley was an American stage entertainer, screen and television actor. Although Frawley acted in over 100 films, he achieved his greatest fame playing landlord Fred Mertz for the situation comedy I Love Lucy.-Early life:William was born to Michael A. Frawley and Mary E....

 of I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy

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) bent on stealing a secret chemical compound developed in the A&M Chemistry Department. Craig is drummed out of the Corps for being a suspected accomplice to the spies, but he then bravely infiltrates the spy network to sabotage the Japanese war effort. Many A&M traditions are referenced in this film.

Cast

• Richard Quine
  Richard Quine
  Richard Quine was an American stage, film, and radio actor and film director.Quine was born in Detroit. He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen the following year...
  
   as Brad Craig
• Anne Gwynne
  Anne Gwynne
  Anne Gwynne was an American film actress of the 1940s. Known as one of the first scream queens because of her numerous appearances in horror films, the actress-model was also one of the most popular pin-ups of World War II....
  
   as Nina Lambert
• Noah Beery, Jr.
  Noah Beery, Jr.
  Noah Lindsey Beery , known professionally as Noah Beery, Jr. or just Noah Beery, was an American actor specializing in warm, friendly character parts similar to the ones played by his uncle Wallace Beery, although Noah Beery, Jr., unlike his uncle, seldom broke away from playing supporting...
  
   as Cyanide Jenkins
• Martha O'Driscoll as Deede Dunham
• William Frawley
  William Frawley
  William Clement "Bill" Frawley was an American stage entertainer, screen and television actor. Although Frawley acted in over 100 films, he achieved his greatest fame playing landlord Fred Mertz for the situation comedy I Love Lucy.-Early life:William was born to Michael A. Frawley and Mary E....
  
   as Traveling Salesman
• Edgar Barrier
  Edgar Barrier
  Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show....
  
   as Nishikawa
• Robert Mitchum
  Robert Mitchum
  Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time...
  
   as Panhandle Mitchell
• Bill Stern
  Bill Stern
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   as Himself
• Mantan Moreland
  Mantan Moreland
  Mantan Moreland was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s.-Career:Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Moreland began acting by the time he was an adolescent, reportedly running away to join the circus...
  
   as Willie
• William Blees as Student
• Harry Davenport as Pop Lambert
• Alfredo DeSa as Fortuno Tavares
• Roland Got as Matsui
• Samuel S. Hinds
  Samuel S. Hinds
  Samuel Southey Hinds was an American actor who is perhaps best remembered for playing Peter Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life and for his part in You Can't Take It With You , both films by Frank Capra...
  
   as Col. Jason Craig
• Allen Jung as Kubo
• Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart as Chip Goodwin
• Moroni Olsen
  Moroni Olsen
  Moroni Olsen was an American actor.-Biography:Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Marsha Hoverholst who named him after the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, or even John Willard...
  
   as Commandant
• George Putnam
  George Putnam (newsman)
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  as Army Hour Announcer
• Bruce Wong as Japanese Soldier