Orders Is Orders

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 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

External links

• Orders Is Orders at the Internet Movie Database