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Half Shot At Sunrise

1930, Movie, NR, 75 mins

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The Broadway and vaudeville comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey attack the big screen with lots of heart, portraying two enlisted men who go AWOL in Paris and disguise themselves as officers to elude the MPs. Their colonel is also in Paris, along with his two lovely daughters, one of whom is Dorothy Lee, with whom Wheeler soon becomes romantically entangled. Plenty of comic complications arise as the film builds up to a final battle scene. As usual, the Wheeler-Wo... read more leave a comment
Year: 1930
Rated NR

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Cast
Bert Wheeler: Tommy
Robert Woolsey: Gilbert
Jack Rutherford: M.P. Sergeant
George MacFarlane: Col. Marshall
Roberta Robinson: Eileen
Leni Stengel: Olga

 

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