Orders Is Orders
Orders Is Orders | |
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Directed by | Walter Forde |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Written by | Leslie Arliss |
Starring |
Charlotte Greenwood James Gleason Cyril Maude |
Cinematography | Glen MacWilliams |
Edited by | Derek Twist |
Distributed by | Gaumont Film Company |
Release dates | 4 May 1934 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Orders Is Orders is a 1934 British comedy film starring Charlotte Greenwood, James Gleason and Cyril Maude about an American film crew who move into a British army barracks to start making a film, much to the commander's horror. Much of the film concerns the interaction between the American crew and the British officers.[1][2]
It was remade in 1954 as Orders Are Orders starring Peter Sellers, Sid James and Tony Hancock.
Cast
- Wanda - Charlotte Greenwood
- Ed Waggermeyer - James Gleason
- Colonel Arthur Bellows - Cyril Maude
- Jake - Finlay Currie
- Dave Zingbaum - Percy Parsons
- The Brigadier - Cedric Hardwicke
- Chauncey Pavey - Donald Calthrop
- Captain Bill Harper - Ian Hunter
- Patricia Bellows - Jane Carr
- Rupert Dashwood - Ray Milland
- The Quartermaster - Edwin Laurence
- Private Slee - Eliot Makeham
- Private Goffin - Hay Plumb
- Miss Marigold - Glennis Lorimer
- R.S.M. - Wally Patch
- Rosenblatt - Sydney Keith
Critical reception
In The New York Times, Mordaunt Hall called the film, "a tepid farce...It is an adaptation of a minor stage work written by Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong, and the wonder is that the producers, Gaumont-British, thought it worthy of such an excellent company of players. On the credit side of this piece of buffoonery and punning there are the interesting glimpses in a military barracks, splendid photography and sound recording and good-natured work by the cast." [3]
References
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024419/
- ↑ "Orders Is Orders | BFI | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ↑ Hall, Mordaunt (1934-05-07). "Movie Review - Orders Is Orders - THE SCREEN; James Gleason, Cyril Maude, Charlotte Greenwood and Others in a British Pictorial Farce.". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2014-04-08.