Orders Is Orders
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Director Walter Forde Duration | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 4 May 1934 (1934-05-04) Writer Leslie Arliss, Anthony Armstrong (play), Sidney Gilliat, James Gleason, Ian Hay (play) Initial release May 2, 1934 (New York City) Screenplay James Gleason, Sidney Gilliat, Leslie Arliss Story by John Hay Beith, Anthony Armstrong Cast James Gleason (Ed Waggermeyer), Finlay Currie (Dave), Cyril Maude (Col Bellamy), Charlotte Greenwood (Wanda Sinclair), Cedric Hardwicke (Brigadier)Similar movies Related Walter Forde movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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It was remade in 1954 as Orders Are Orders starring Peter Sellers, Sid James and Tony Hancock.
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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."
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