Half Shot at Sunrise

1930
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1h 18m

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Leni Stengel, Bert Wheeler, and Robert Woolsey in Half Shot at Sunrise (1930)

The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.

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Bert Wheeler

Tommy Turner

Robert Woolsey

Gilbert Simpson

Dorothy Lee

Annette Marshall

George MacFarlane

Col. Marshall

Edna May Oliver

Mrs. Marshall

Leni Stengel

Olga

Hugh Trevor

Lt. Jim Reed

Roberta Robinson

Eileen

Jack Rutherford

MP Sergeant
(as John Rutherford)

Original John Tiller Girls

Performers
(as The Tiller Sunshine Girls)

William Bechtel

Restaurant Patron
(uncredited)

E.H. Calvert

Gen. Hale
(uncredited)

Stanley Campbell

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

André Cheron

French Waiter
(uncredited)

Edgar De Lange

Military Policeman
(uncredited)

Alexander Ikonnikov

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

Owen Martin

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

Alan Roscoe

Capt. Jones
(uncredited)

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Trivia
This film was a hit at the box office, earning "RKO" a profit of $400,000 ($5.98M in 2019) according to studio records.

Goofs
After a number with Tommy and Gilbert, Annette jumps off the roof of the car, expecting to be caught by the pair, but isn't. She lands on her posterior beside the car. In the next shot, when one of the MPs run up, she's in the same position but much further from the car.

Quotes
Annette Marshall: Are you married?
Tommy Turner: No, I just naturally look worried.

Crazy credits
Opening credits are shown over a battlefield scene, with barbed wire.

Connections
Featured in Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008)

Soundtracks
WHISTLING THE BLUES AWAY
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Tierney
Lyrics by Anne Caldwell
Performed by Bert Wheeler & Dorothy Lee
Later danced at Pierre's café by Original John Tiller Girls

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7/10

fun wheeler and woolsey thang

Comedy team Wheeler and Woolsey are soldiers in WW I who go AWOL, impersonate military police, flirt with the locals, and cause havoc where-ever they go. Edna May Oliver is in here as the Colonel's wife, with her usual disapproving glances and sarcasm. The Tiller Girls perform a bit in the cafe. The boys pretend to speak french in a terrible, insulting fashion. and everyone pretends not to notice. This was one of their earlier films, and could use a restoration -- the version I saw had some rough spots in both sound and picture quality. It's a fun, light film. The usual sight and banter gags as all their other films, but it's fun to watch the vaudeville bits taped together into a film. Moves pretty slowly, as they try to stay one step ahead of the real MPs. Directed by Paul Sloane, who also directed them in "Cuckoos". I caught this one on Epix channel. It's entertaining.