I was a male war bride [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox ; produced by Sol C. Siegel ; screenplay by Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass and Hagar Wilde ; directed by Howard Hawks.
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FilmPublisher number: 2220262 | 20th Century Fox EntertainmentLanguage: English Summary language: English, Spanish Publication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2003.Edition: Full screen presentationDescription: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - Title on container: Howard Hawks' I was a male war bride
- Cinematographers, Osmond Borradaile, Norbert Brodine ; art directors, Albert Hogsett, Lyle R. Wheeler ; editor, James B. Clark ; music, Cyril J. Mockridge.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Howard Hawks directed this classic farce about how love attempts to triumph over military red tape after the close of World War II. Capt. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer who is assigned to put a stop to a black market operation in occupied Germany with the help of Lt. Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan), an American WAC. While their initial meetings are hardly harmonious, in time Rochard and Gates find that opposites really do attract, and they fall in love. The two decide to get married, which seems simple enough, but the moment Gates receives orders to return to the United States and Rochard wants to join her, they soon discover just how complicated the U.S. Army can make things. While the Army has a strict protocol for dealing with "war brides," there is no similar routine for men who marry female Army personnel, so in order to follow his new wife into the States, Rochard has to disguise himself as a WAC. From this moment on, nearly everything that happens to Rochard is an affront to his dignity and/or his patience, from his inability to share a bunk with his new bride to his discovery that Army regulations prevent him from driving a motorcycle (Gates has to take the handlebars, while her husband is forced to ride in a sidecar). As more than one writer has pointed out, while Grant gives a deft comic performance, it's a bit of a stretch to imagine that he's French (but probably no more than to imagine that anyone would really believe that he's a woman). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
From a story by Henri Rochard.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
Title from container.
Cinematographers, Osmond Borradaile, Norbert Brodine ; art directors, Albert Hogsett, Lyle R. Wheeler ; editor, James B. Clark ; music, Cyril J. Mockridge.
Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, William Neff.
A French officer falls in love with a woman lieutenant and must cross dress in order to get into the United States.
Not rated.
DVD; NTSC (Region 1); Dolby Digital.
English (stereo or mono) dialogue, Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.