I Was a Male War Bride
by Howard Hawks
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Actor: Ann Sheridan, Bill Neff, Cary Grant, Marion Marshall, Randy StuartDirector: Howard Hawks
Cinematographer: Norbert Brodine
Cinematographer: Osmond Borradaile
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Writer: Charles Lederer
Writer: Hagar Wilde
Writer: Henri Rochard
Writer: Leonard Spigelgass
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Movie Review: I Was a Male War Bride
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a typical Cary Grant romantic comedy, filled with mayhem and improbable but enjoyable antics. Grant plays a Brit who marries an American military woman during WWII. The war is over and he's trying to emigrate to the U.S. Unfortunately the system isn't set up to handle men who married military women, so hilarity ensues. It's fun comedy that they just don't make anymore.
Summary of I Was a Male War Bride
Stationed to work side-by-side on a mission in post war Germany, French army officer Henry Rochard (Grant) and American WAC Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) fall in love. But just when they decide to marry, Catherine is ordered back to the US - alone! The only way for an alien, including her husband, to enter the US with her, is through the congressional act governing war brides. So?the resourceful Catherine does the obvious ---disguises her husband as a sister WAC in this hilarious classic that the whole family will enjoy.This laugh-a-minute farce takes place in Occupied Germany, in the years following World War II. French officer Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) gets assigned to pair up with Lt. Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) to track down black marketers; they're already well acquainted and can't stand each other's presence. Eventually their antagonism turns to love, however, and they marry. Problem number two: navigating through U.S. Army red tape, which necessitates that Rochard be classified as a war bride and cross-dress to gain entry into the States. Grant makes an even less convincing woman than he does a Frenchman. The alternate title of this movie was You Can't Sleep Here, a phrase Grant hears over and over as he sleeps in all manner of horribly awkward and uncomfortable circumstances. Sheridan is utterly charming, and the many gags are a reminder of Grant's gifts for physical comedy. The film harks back to the screwball comedies of the '30s, only with a somewhat more leisurely pace. Sample lines, with Grant being handed a soggy infant: "Oh, how cute! What is it?" "It's a human fire extinguisher. Want to hold it?" "What's its name?" "Niagara!" --Jerry Renshaw
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