Orders Is Orders

Orders Is Orders

0.0IMDb Score
Released:1933-07-18
Genre:Comedy
Duration:62 min
Director:Walter Forde
Actors:Charlotte Greenwood, James Gleason, Ray Milland, Finlay Currie, Cedric Hardwicke
Production:Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Keywords:army base

Overview:

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.

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