Orders Is Orders
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{{Infobox film
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| director = Walter Forde
| producer = Michael Balcon
| based_on = {{based on|Orders Are Orders|Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong}}
| writer = Leslie Arliss
James Gleason
| starring = Charlotte Greenwood
James Gleason
Cyril Maude
| music = Louis Levy
| cinematography = Glen MacWilliams
| editing = Derek Twist
| studio = Gaumont British Picture Corporation
| distributor = Ideal Films
| released = {{Film date|1933|07|18|UK|df=y}}
| runtime = 88 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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Orders Is Orders is a 1933 British comedy film{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b2485fd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310140403/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b2485fd|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|title=Orders Is Orders (1933)|website=BFI Film Forever|access-date=19 August 2016}}. This film was released in the United States in May 1934, which some sources follow. 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024419/|title = Orders is Orders|publisher = IMDb|date = 18 July 1933}}{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b2485fd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711234707/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b2485fd |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-11 |title=Orders Is Orders | BFI | BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-04-08}} It is based upon the 1932 play Orders Are Orders by Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong. It was shot at the Lime Grove Studios in London with sets designed by the art director Alfred Junge.
It was remade in 1954 as Orders Are Orders starring Peter Sellers, Sid James and Tony Hancock.
Cast
- Charlotte Greenwood as Wanda Sinclair
- James Gleason as Ed Waggermeyer
- Cyril Maude as Col. Bellamy
- Finlay Currie as Dave
- Percy Parsons as Zingbaum
- Cedric Hardwicke as Brigadier
- Donald Calthrop as Pavey
- Ian Hunter as Capt. Harper
- Jane Carr as Patricia Bellamy
- Ray Milland as Dashwood
- Edwin Lawrence as Quartermaster
- Eliot Makeham as Pvt. Slee
- Hay Plumb as Pvt. Goffin
- Wally Patch as Regimental Sergeant Major
- Jane Cornell as Starlet
- Glennis Lorimer as Marigold
- Sydney Keith as Rosenblatt
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."{{cite web|last=Hall |first=Mordaunt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9502E5DB1E3DE33ABC4F53DFB366838F629EDE&pagewanted=print |title=Movie Review – Orders Is Orders – THE SCREEN; James Gleason, Cyril Maude, Charlotte Greenwood and Others in a British Pictorial Farce. |work=The New York Times |date=1934-05-07 |access-date=2014-04-08}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0024419|title=Orders Is Orders}}
{{Walter Forde}}
{{Launder and Gilliat}}
Category:Films based on works by Ian Hay
Category:Films directed by Walter Forde
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:Gainsborough Pictures films
Category:Films shot at Lime Grove Studios
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:Films scored by Louis Levy
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