Sons o' Guns (1936)
1h 15m
Running Time
May 13, 1936Release Date
Sons o' Guns (1936)
1h 15m
Running Time
May 13, 1936Release Date
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Plot.
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
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Cast & Crew.
Joe E. Brown
Jimmy Canfield
Joan Blondell
Yvonne
Beverly Roberts
Mary Harper
Eric Blore
Hobson
Craig Reynolds
Lieut. Burton
Lloyd Bacon
Director
Wini Shaw
Bernice Pearce
Jerry Wald
Writer
Joe King
General Harper
Julius J. Epstein
Writer
Robert Barrat
Pierre
Fred Thompson
Writer
G.P. Huntley
Captain Ponsonby-Falcke
Frank Mitchell
Ritter
Jack Donohue
Writer
Pat C. Flick
Writer
Bert Roach
Vogel
David Worth
Arthur Travers
Hans Joby
German Prisoner
Michael Mark
Carl
Otto Fries
German Spy
Mischa Auer
German Spy
Robert Adair
Sentry
Glen Cavender
German Ordered to Retreat
Bill Dagwell
Soldier
James Eagles
Young Soldier
Pat Flaherty
Apache Dancer
Sol Gorss
Apache Dancer
Olaf Hytten
Sentry
Milton Kibbee
Military Policeman
Allen Mathews
Military Policeman
Henry Otho
Apache Dancer
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Wiki.
Sons O' Guns is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Jerry Wald and Julius J. Epstein. It stars Joe E. Brown, and features Joan Blondell, with Beverly Roberts, Eric Blore, Craig Reynolds and Wini Shaw. It was released by Warner Bros. on May 30, 1936.The film is based on a stage musical of the same name with book by Fred Thompson and Jack Donohue, music by J. Fred Coots, and lyrics by Arthur Swanstrom and Benny Davis, which played on Broadway for 295 performances beginning on November 26, 1929. Only one song from the stage production was used, "Over Here", the two other songs in the film – "Arms of an Army Man" and "A Buck and a Quarter a Day" – were written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin.