Orders Is Orders

Orders Is Orders
Directed by	Walter Forde
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Leslie Arliss
Starring	Charlotte Greenwood James Gleason Cyril Maude
Cinematography	Glen MacWilliams
Edited by	Derek Twist
Distributed by	Gaumont Film Company
Release dates	4 May 1934 (1934-05-04)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United Kingdom

Orders Is Orders is a 1934 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.

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."

External links

• Orders Is Orders at IMDb