Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) - Turner Classic Movies

Brief Synopsis

Two servicemen dodge military police during an unauthorized leave in Paris.

Cast & Crew

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Paul Sloane

Bert Wheeler

Robert Woolsey

Dorothy Lee

Hugh Trevor

Lieut. Jim Reed

Edna May Oliver

Photos & Videos

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Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Love, Honor And Oh Baby!

Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Tried Perfume?

Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Whistling The Blues Away

Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing But Love

Film Details

Genre

Comedy

Release Date

Oct 4, 1930

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

RKO Productions

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 19m

Sound

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.20 : 1

Film Length

7,059ft (10 reels)

Synopsis

Colonel Marshall, with the United States Army in Paris, is charged with the delivery of important orders pertaining to a major offensive, but instead he gets love notes from Olga, a French flirt whom his wife does not appreciate. His daughter, Eileen, loves Lieut. Jim Reed, whom the colonel dislikes. Meanwhile, Tommy and Gilbert, buck privates, go A. W. O. L., and to escape pursuit by military police, they steal the colonel's car, along with Annette, his younger daughter. To win them the colonel's forgiveness, Annette and Olga plan to make the boys heroes by intercepting papers intended for Lieutenant Reed, detailed to the front, and sending the boys on Reed's mission. They are captured, and the colonel threatens to have them shot; but they blackmail him to forgive them with the aid of one of Olga's perfumed love notes.

Director

Paul Sloane

Cast

Bert Wheeler

Robert Woolsey

Dorothy Lee

Hugh Trevor

Lieut. Jim Reed

Edna May Oliver

Eddie De Lange

Military policeman

E. H. Calvert

Alan Roscoe

John Rutherford

George Macfarlane

Colonel Marshall

Roberta Robinson

Leni Stengel

Crew

Anne Caldwell

Anne Caldwell

James Ashmore Creelman

James Ashmore Creelman

Henry Hobart

Associate Producer

William Le Baron

Hugh Mcdowell

Sound Recording

Nick Musuraca

Director of Photography

Mary Read

Arthur Roberts

Ralph Spence

Harry Tierney

Videos

Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Tried Perfume? Just the supporting ladies here, savvy Parisian Olga (Leni Stengel) is advising soldier-crazy Annette (Dorothy Lee), daughter of an American officer in WWI Paris, when her mother (Edna May Oliver) and sister (Roberta Robinson) happen by, in the RKO Wheeler & Woolsey comedy hit Half Shot At Sunrise, 1930.

Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing But Love French Olga (Leni Stengel) is actually plotting to save AWOL American soldier Gilbert (Robert Woolsey) from the firing squad, though he still thinks he’s fooling her, all of which prompts another cute original tune by Harry Tierney and Anne Caldwell, in the RKO (Bert) Wheeler & Woolsey comedy, Half Shot At Sunrise, 1930.

Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Love, Honor And Oh Baby! Frustrated American MP’s in Paris (Jack Rutherford and Charles Sullivan) set up the first scene for the AWOL buck privates they can’t find, the stars Bert Wheeler and (bespectacled) Robert Woolsey as Tommy and Gilbert, scamming the cops and chasing girls, early in RKO’s Half Shot At Sunrise, 1930.

Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Whistling The Blues Away Frisky daughter of an American colonel in WWI Paris, Dorothy Lee as Annette has just met AWOL private Tommy (Bert Wheeler), leading to an original, music by Harry Tierney and lyrics by Anne Caldwell, the co-screenwriter and famed librettist, in the RKO Wheeler & Woolsey comedy, Half Shot At Sunrise, 1930.

Film Details

Genre

Comedy

Release Date

Oct 4, 1930

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

RKO Productions

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 19m

Sound

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.20 : 1

Film Length

7,059ft (10 reels)

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