A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Cicely Courtneidge
Kit Ross
Tom Walls
John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
Barry MacKay
Dick Welch
Alfred Drayton
Sergeant Bull
Iris Ashley
Josephine
Ivor McLaren
Sergeant Cummings
Gibb McLaughlin
Old Soldier
Peter Gawthorne
Staff Colonel
Cecil Parker
Colonel of the Greys
George Merritt
Harley
Cyril Smith
Corporal Fox
Mickey Brantford
Ensign Coke
Randle Ayrton
King Louis XIV
Henry Oscar
Goultier
Percy Walsh
Naylor
Donald Calthrop
Drunken Yokel
Frank Atkinson
Soldier
Marcus Barron
Minor Role
Kenneth Buckley
Minor Role
Syd Crossley
Soldier
Howard Marion-Crawford
Minor Role
John Mortimer
Minor Role
Finlay Currie
Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
Director
Victor Saville
Dialogue
Ian Hay
Scenario Writer
Marjorie Gaffney
Scenario Writer, Writer
W.P. Lipscomb
Writer
Reginald Pound
June 19, 2022
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When inn-keeper "Kit" (Cicely Courtneidge) discovers that her new husband has been pressed into the army of Queen Anne on the evening following her wedding, she sets about trying to retrieve him from his new, precarious, position. Dressed as a man, she gets herself posted to the front and through cunning manipulation of her rather dopey superiors - including the Duke of Marlborough (Tom Walls) himself - she proves more than a match for them, and the opposing French. It's a whimsy of a film, this - a vehicle for a haughty Courteneidge with competent, if not exactly hysterically funny, support from a cast that indulge both her style and the pretty lacklustre writing. It has some humour, and demonstrates well that women were in no way inferior to their men folks, but the joke really does wear thin and the ending (somewhat tied by history) is never really in question. The star has a decent go at a Noel Gay number which proves she can hold a tune, just not one of his best!
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00