Francis the Talking Mule

The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Maureen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles.

Peter's been friends with Francis since Burma. Francis is a talking mule. He ends up being sent to the race tracks with Travers' race horses. Peter gets a ride there from Miss Travers. Francis tells Peter who's winning the horse race and he bets $10. FBI agents are suspicious as to how he knew. Miss Travers steps in and helps him. Peter gets a job with the Travers looking after the horses. With a big race coming up, Peter's problems with the FBI and a mob boss are not over.

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

U.S. Army veteran Peter Stirling and his friend, Francis the talking Mule (who was not a donkey), arrive in New York City, where Peter has ambitions to become a big-time newspaper reporter, but can only get a job as a copy boy. Francis, the talking MULE (and not a donkey), though is boarding at the stables where the horses of the city's mounted police are kept, and mounted-police horses are known for being gossips, so Francis gets lots of inside information regarding local crime activity, passes it on to Peter, and Peter is soon leading the town in big-time scoops. This pleases his city-editor to no end, but the local gangsters are not amused.

On arrival at Fort Chase, ex-soldier Peter Stirling, recalled to active duty, is re-united with his old pal Francis the Talking Mule. Gradually, it dawns on Peter that a clerical error has assigned him to an all-female WAC base, where broad slapstick is the order of the day and Francis has more horse sense than any of the human officers. Too innocent to appreciate the pleasant aspects of his predicament, Peter ends by helping the "enemy" in a war-game battle of the sexes.

A story following Lieutenant Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) and his dream of being in the Navy.

Francis the Talking Mule witnesses a murder. He takes a bumbling reporter named David Prescott under his wing and the two of them set out to solve the crime.