| Half Shot at Sunrise | |
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| Directed by | Paul Sloane |
| Produced by | William LeBaron |
| Written by | Roscoe Arbuckle (uncredited) Anne Caldwell James Ashmore Creelman Roberta Robinson Ralph Spence |
| Starring | Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Dorothy Lee George MacFarlane Edna May Oliver Leni Stengel Hugh Trevor |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
| Editing by | Arthur Roberts |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 4, 1930 |
| Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Half Shot at Sunrise is a 1930 slapstick comedy film starring the comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey and Dorothy Lee. The film is about US army soldiers in Paris during World War I and their efforts to escape just about everything to do with the military.
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During World War I, soldiers Tommy (Bert Wheeler) and Gilbert (Robert Woolsey) go AWOL in Paris, more interested in picking up women than in military duty. Along the way, Tommy falls for a girl named Annette (Dorothy Lee), unaware at first that she's the daughter of Colonel Marshall (George MacFarlane), their commanding officer; Gilbert, meanwhile, falls for Mademoiselle Olga (Leni Stengel), the Colonel's lady friend.
Hoping to turn the two soldiers into heroes so they won't be court-martialed, Annette and Olga persuade the boys to deliver a set of sealed orders ("borrowed" from the Colonel) to the front lines. After an uncharacteristically dramatic scene at the front, the two are apprehended by the MPs and brought to Colonel Marshall, but escape punishment by pointing out that the envelope they'd carried was the wrong one; it actually contained a love letter from Olga to the (married) Colonel!
The Tiller Sunshine Girls also present a dance number.