History Film / WeveNeverBeenLicked

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Brad, an American living in the Philippines, enrolls at [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas A&M University]], hoping to study [[CallToAgriculture agriculture]] so that he can apply that education to improving life in the Philippine Islands, which he calls home. The first two friends he meets at A&M are a pair of Japanese students, who turn out to be [[YellowPeril spies]]. He is suspected of being a spy because of his association with the Japanese students, and ends up joining their spy ring, hoping to sabotage it from inside. Finally, he ends up as a Tokyo Rose-style Japanese propaganda broadcaster, who [[ContrivedCoincidence somehow]] finds himself broadcasting from the back seat of a Japanese plane during the Battle of Midway. He wrests control of the plane at a key moment in the battle, and crashes it into the Japanese flagship to prevent it from launching planes to intercept a squadron of American planes led by one of his classmates from Texas A&M.

A 1943 American WorldWarII {{propaganda}} film directed by John Rawlins and starring Richard Quine.

* YellowPeril - A rare double subversion. This being a wartime propaganda film involving the Pacific Campaign of WorldWarTwo, the few Japanese characters who appear of course turn out to be spies.

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A [[WorldWarII 1943]] American {{propaganda}} film directed by John Rawlins and centered around a student at [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas A&M University]].

Brad (Richard Quine), an American living in the Philippines, enrolls at Texas A&M, hoping to study [[CallToAgriculture agriculture]] so that he can apply that education to improving life in the Philippine Islands, which he calls home. The first two friends he meets at A&M are a pair of Japanese students, who turn out to be [[YellowPeril spies]]. He is suspected of being a spy because of his association with the Japanese students, and ends up joining their spy ring, hoping to sabotage it from inside. Finally, he ends up as a Tokyo Rose-style Japanese propaganda broadcaster, who [[ContrivedCoincidence somehow]] finds himself broadcasting from the back seat of a Japanese plane during the Battle of Midway. He wrests control of the plane at a key moment in the battle, and crashes it into the Japanese flagship to prevent it from launching planes to intercept a squadron of American planes led by one of his classmates from Texas A&M.

A [[WorldWarII 1943]] American {{propaganda}} film centered around a student at [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas A&M University]]. Brad, an American living in the Philippines enrolls in Texas A&M University, hoping to study [[CallToAgriculture agriculture]] so that he can apply that education to improving life in the Philippine Islands, which he calls home. The first two friends he meets at A&M are a pair of Japanese students, who turn out to be [[YellowPeril spies]]. He is suspected of being a spy because of his association with the Japanese students, and ends up joining their spy ring, hoping to sabotage it from inside. Finally, he ends up as a Tokyo Rose-style Japanese propaganda broadcaster, who [[ContrivedCoincidence somehow]] finds himself broadcasting from the back seat of a Japanese plane during the Battle of Midway. He wrests control of the plane at a key moment in the battle, and crashes it into the Japanese flagship to prevent it from launching planes to intercept a squadron of American planes led by one of his classmates from Texas A&M.

This film contains examples of the following tropes:

* CaliforniaDoubling - Surprisingly averted. It was shot in College Station, Texas. However, so much the university has changed that it's difficult to identify exactly films were shot.

*YellowPeril - This being a wartime propaganda film involving the Pacific Campaign of WorldWarTwo, the few Japanese characters who appear of course turn out to be spies.

*SeriousBusiness - The traditions of Texas A&M University, including letting the [[strike:mascot]] [[strike:dog]] [[InsistentTerminology First Lady Of Aggieland]], Reveille, sleep in his bed because that was the bunk she decided to lay down on.

*ZeroApprovalGambit - After being accused of being a spy, Brad defects to the Japanese with the intent of [[FakeeDefector sabotaging their war effort from inside]]. For this to work, everybody had to think he was a traitor.

*ZeroApprovalGambit - After being accused of being a spy, Brad defects to the Japanese with the intent of [[FalseDefector sabotaging their war effort from inside]]. For this to work, everybody had to think he was a traitor.

A [[WorldWarII 1943]] American {{propaganda}} film centered around a student at [[EverythingsBiggerInTexas Texas A&M University]]. Brad, an American living in the Philippines enrolls in Texas A&M University, hoping to study [[CallToAgriculture agriculture]] so that he can apply that education to improving life in the Philippine Islands, which he calls home. The first two friends he meets at A&M are a pair of Japanese students, who turn out to be [[YellowPeril spies]]. He is suspected of being a spy because of his association with the Japanese students, and ends up joining their spy ring, hoping to sabotage it from inside. Finally, he ends up as a Tokyo Rose-style Japanese propaganda broadcaster, who [[ContrivedCoincidence somehow]] finds himself broadcasting from the back seat of a Japanese plane during the Battle of Midway. He wrests control of the plane at a key moment in the battle, and crashes it into the Japanese flagship to prevent it from launching planes to intercept a squadron of American planes led by one of his classmates from Texas A&M.

*MilitaryAcademy/MilitarySchool - Texas A&M University, which at the time required all male students ([[OneGenderSchool the only female students allowed were family members of the faculty]]) to join the Corps of Cadets, an officer training program.

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*YellowPeril - This being a wartime propaganda film involving the Pacific Campaign of WorldWarTwo, the few Japanese characters who appear of course turn out to be spies.

*SeriousBusiness - The traditions of Texas A&M University, including letting the [[strike:mascot]] [[strike:dog]] First Lady Of Aggieland, Reveille, sleep in his bed because that was the bunk she decided to lay down on.

A [[WorldWarII 1943]] American {{propaganda}} film centered around a student at [[EverythingIsBiggerInTexas Texas A&M University]]. An American living in the Philippines enrolls in Texas A&M University, hoping to study [[CallToAgriculture agriculture]] so that he can apply that education to improving life in the Philippine Islands, which he calls home. The first two friends he meets at A&M are a pair of Japanese students, who turn out to be [[YellowPeril spies]]. He is suspected of being a spy because of his association with the Japanese students, and ends up joining their spy ring, hoping to sabotage it from inside. Finally, he ends up as a Tokyo Rose-style Japanese propaganda broadcaster, who [[ContrivedCoincidence somehow]] finds himself broadcasting from the back seat of a Japanese plane during the Battle of Midway. He wrests control of the plane at a key moment in the battle, and crashes it into the Japanese flagship to prevent it from launching planes to intercept a squadron of American planes led by one of his classmates from Texas A&M.

*RedemptionEqualsDeath

CallToAgriculture - The protagonist's motivation to enroll at Texas A&M University.
RedemptionEqualsDeath
SeriousBusiness - The traditions of Texas A&M University, including letting the [[strike:mascot]] [[strike:dog]] First Lady Of Aggieland, Reveille, sleep in his bed because that was the bunk she decided to lay down on.

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