The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.
Half Shot at Sunrise 1930 HD | Comedy film by Paul Sloane | Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey and Dorothy Lee
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Half Shot at Sunrise is a 1930 Amerian comedy film starring the comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey and Dorothy Lee (actress). Their fourth film together, it was the second starring vehicle for the two, following the success of The Cuckoos, which had been released earlier in 1930. Directed by Paul Sloane (director), from a screenplay by Anne Caldwell, James Ashmore Creelman, Ralph Spence, and Roscoe Arbuckle, which had been tailored to highlight the comedic talents of Wheeler and Woolsey.
Plot Summary
During World War I, two American Doughboys, Tommy Turner and Gilbert Simpson, are more interested in picking up girls than in military duty. In Paris, they go Desertion#Absence without leave in order to follow their libertine pursuits. They alternate between impersonating officers in order to impress the ladies, and avoiding being found out by the military police. During their hijinks, the pair accidentally steal the Colonel Marshall’s car (their commanding officer), which is were Tommy meets and falls in love with Annette, who unbeknownst to him is Colonel Marshall’s younger daughter.
The Colonel has been tasked with organizing a major offensive at the front. His older daughter, Eileen, is in love with a young Lieutenant, Jim Reed. The Colonel intends to send Reed to the front with the orders. However, to get Tommy and Gilbert back in the Colonel’s good graces, Annette and the Colonel’s paramour, Olga, who has taken an interest in Gilbert, scheme by stealing the orders from Reed and giving them to the boys, so that they can be the ones to carry them to the front.
After a dramatic scene at the front, the two are apprehended by the Military police, and brought to Colonel Marshall, for justice. He readies the firing squad, but after the two point out that the “secret papers” they were carrying to the commanding General, was actually a love letter from Olga to the very married Colonel, he allows Tommy to marry his youngest daughter Annette and Gilbert will marry Olga.
Cast
- Bert Wheeler as Tommy Turner
- Robert Woolsey as Gilbert Simpson
- Dorothy Lee (actress) as Annette Marshall
- Hugh Trevor as Lieutenant Jim Reed
- Edna May Oliver as Mrs. Marshall
- Eddie De Lange as MP
- E. H. Calvert as General Hale
- Alan Roscoe as Captain Jones
- Jack Rutherford (actor) as MP Sergeant
- George MacFarlane as Colonel Marshall
- Roberta Robinson as Eileen Marshall
- Leni Stengel as Olga
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