Film Summary CCCIII (Brother Rat)

I'm not sure what to make of this movie. There are about five major plot points each one has their own thing and they kind of overlap of one another. So we have three major characters in this film. Wayne Norris plays a guy called Billy , Eddie Albert who plays a guy called Bing and Ronald Reagan whose character I can't remember.

The Story Goes there are three main men are all studying at the Virginia Institute. And they all seem to have a solid enough record. But Bill has a habit of sneaking out of the barracks late at night to catch himself a bit of fun with one of the local girls. And Bing has secretly been married for over a year and is soon going to be a father. If either been said the information got out to the military Council they would throw him out, (for some reason). They don't really specify why they would throw him out. But I guess that's just not something you can do in the 1930s military.

But none of that matters because Billy the simple-hearted idiot is not only going to gamble his friends money away on a baseball game that his friend happens to be competing in but is eventually going to steal all his friends possessions including a military saber that technically belongs to the US government to bid against his friend to make the gambling bet even to make sure he has enough money to provide his friends baby. As you can imagine the whole thing goes topside when the general of the school finds out about this little escapade and almost has the three men arrested and sent to Alcatraz for selling U.S. property. Or at least that's the way I remember seeing it.
I can't really remember the beginning or end of this film. There's just a bunch of different events going on and the most amusing ones between Ronald Reagan and this timid girl who's interested in him. Which is in contrast to Billy and interest he has to this other girl who he's really interested in. We discover later on that the girl Ronald Reagan was interacting with is in fact the daughter to the general who runs the academy. And it's a good thing that she's his daughter because she's the only reason all these men aren't in Alcatraz.

So the idea behind the title is that all the men of the academy call each other 'brother rat'. Because until these men can graduate from the academy their scene is nothing more than rats. Just a bunch of useless good-for-nothing kids who need some basic discipline drilled into their everyday life. Which doesn't seem to be doing any of them any good when you consider all the shenanigans these kids are getting up to in this film.
Also can we just acknowledge the fact that one of these dorky kids who gets everybody in trouble so badly but one day end up to be the real life president. Man when they said anybody could be u.s. president they weren't kidding.

I was really hoping for more Eddie Albert in this film. He's one of the people that used to be on the stage play for this very Act. But he's a very secondary character the only pops up for a few scenes and he's so disoriented in most of them due to the knowledge of his soon-to-be born child that you don't really get to see anything interesting from him.