Me and Marlborough
Comedy • Romance
Overview:
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Director:
Victor Saville
Status:
Released
Language:
English
Buget:
$0.00
Revenue:
Key words:
Cast
Cicely Courtneidge
~ as ~
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
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Written 3 year(s) ago
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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!
