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Orders Is Orders is a 1933 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.

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."

References

Orders Is Orders Wikipedia

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