Carry on, Sergeant!
{{short description|1928 film}}
{{for|the 1958 film|Carry On Sergeant}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Carry on, Sergeant!
| image =
| caption =
| director = Bruce Bairnsfather
| producer = Bruce Bairnsfather
| writer = Bruce Bairnsfather
| starring = Hugh Buckler
Jimmie Savo
Nancy Ann Hargreaves
Louise Cardi
| music = Ernest Dainty
| cinematography = Bert Cann
| editing = Bruce Bairnsfather & Bert Cann
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1928|11|10}}
| runtime = 117 minutes
| country = Canada
| language = English (silent)
| budget =
}}
Carry On, Sergeant! is a 1928 Canadian World War I drama, and is considered to be one of the earliest Canadian feature-length motion pictures. Costing {{CAD|500,000|year=1928}} to make, it certainly was the most expensive.
Plot
Carry On, Sergeant! is the story of four friends who join the army to fight in the First World War. After years of trench warfare, one of the men (Hugh Buckler) meets a French woman (Louise Cardi) working the taverns. He sleeps with her, but is overcome with guilt and is later killed in battle. His wife (Nancy Ann Hargreaves) back home believes he died a hero and remembers him with love. This sentimental film, which doesn't back away from the unpleasant – it was harshly criticized for the affair between a Canadian soldier and a 'prostitute' – was released at the end of the silent era and after only a brief theatrical run it disappeared from view. It was revived in the 1970s when the National Archives of Canada struck a new print.{{cite book|last1=Wise|first1=Wyndham|title=Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film|date=2001|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=0-8020-8398-6|page=38|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oveMBgAAQBAJ&q=take+one%27s+essential+guide+to+canadian+film}}Censored! Only in Canada by Malcolm Dean, Virgo Press, 1981.
Cast
{{castlist|
- Hugh Buckler - Bob Mackay
- Jimmie Savo - Syd Small
- W. T. Stewart - James Cameron
- Nancy Ann Hargreaves - Ruth
- Niles Welch - Donald Cameron
- Brenda Bond - Barbara Sinclair
- Monroe Owsley - Leonard Sinclair
- Lewis Dayton - Ralph Moran
- Laura O'Hara - Mme. Voisin
- Charles Esdale - Colonel Halstead
- Donald Hall - Colonel Markham
- Louise Cardi - Marthe
}}
Release
The film premiered on 10 November 1928, in the Regent Theatre in Toronto.{{sfn|Seiler|2013|p=149}}
References
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Works cited
- {{cite book|last=Seiler |first=Robert |title=Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences In Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 |publisher=Athabasca University Press |date=2013 |url=https://archive.org/details/reeltimemovieexh0000seil |isbn=9781926836997}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0018750}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7ypaVzfs0 Restored copy] at YouTube provided by Library and Archives Canada under its French name Bibliothèque et Archives Canada.
Category:1920s war drama films
Category:Canadian black-and-white films
Category:Canadian Armed Forces in films
Category:Canadian war drama films
Category:Canadian World War I films
Category:Canadian silent feature films
Category:Silent war drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language war drama films
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