Orders Is Orders
Orders Is Orders | |
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Directed by | Walter Forde |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Written by | Leslie Arliss James Gleason |
Starring | Charlotte Greenwood James Gleason Cyril Maude |
Cinematography | Glen MacWilliams |
Edited by | Derek Twist |
Distributed by | Gaumont Film Company |
Release date | 1933 (UK) 4 May 1934 (USA) |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Orders Is Orders is a 1933 British comedy film[1] 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.[2][3] It is based upon the play of the same name by Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong.
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."[4]
References
- ^ "Orders Is Orders (1933)". BFI Film Forever. Retrieved 19 August 2016.. This film was released in the United States in May 1934, which some sources follow.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024419/
- ^ "Orders Is Orders | BFI | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ Hall, Mordaunt (7 May 1934). "Movie Review - Orders Is Orders - THE SCREEN; James Gleason, Cyril Maude, Charlotte Greenwood and Others in a British Pictorial Farce". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
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