Touchdown, Army retitled Generals of Tomorrow in the UK is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Kurt Neumann, written by Lloyd Corrigan and Erwin S. Gelsey, and starring John Howard, Mary Carlisle, Robert Cummings, William Frawley, Owen Davis Jr., and Benny Baker.
[1][2][3] Army University football player, Jimmy Howal, gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
Howal is failing French prior to the Army-Navy game, and the cadets fear he will be kept from playing because of it.
Howal realizes what has happened when he passes the exam with flying colors and suspects Toni of having set out to make a fool of him.
Lew Ayres was meant to play a lead but Robert Cummings – who was already in the cast – took the part instead, promoted from a more subsidiary role.