Operation Bullshine

Operation Bullshine is a 1959 British colour comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray and Carole Lesley. The working title of the film was Girls in Arms that features in the film as a marching song. Gunn had filmed Girls at Sea the previous year. The new title, based on an American "euphemism" for a very British word with the same meaning, comes from the frenzied activity preparing for their brigadier's surprise inspection. The film features 1956 Olympic swimmer Judy Grinham as a physical training instructor. The film was released in the USA in 1963 by Seven Arts Productions.

Contents

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• Plot
• Cast
• Reception
• References

Plot

During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as his paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.

Cast

Donald Sinden - Lieutenant Gordon Brown

Barbara Murray - Private Betty Brown

Carole Lesley - Private Marge White

Ronald Shiner - Gunner Slocum

Naunton Wayne - Major Pym

Dora Bryan - Private Cox

John Cairney - Gunner Willie Ross

Fabia Drake - Junior Commander Maddox A.T.S.

Joan Rice - Private Finch

Daniel Massey - Bombardier Peter Palmer

Peter Jones - Gunner Perkins

Barbara Hicks - Sergeant Merrifield

John Welsh - Brigadier

Judy Grinham - P.T. Instructress

Cyril Chamberlain - Orderly Sergeant

Ambrosine Phillpotts - Reporter

Naomi Chance as Subaltern Godfrey A.T.S.

Marianne Stone as Sergeant Cook

Julie Alexander as A.T.S. Girl

Reception

Operation Bullshine was the tenth most popular film at the British box office in 1959.