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About Face (1952 film)

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About Face
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Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Screenplay by Peter Milne
Based onBrother Rat
1936 play
by John Monks Jr.
Fred F. Finklehoffe
Produced by William Jacobs
Starring Gordon MacRae
Eddie Bracken
Virginia Gibson
Cinematography Bert Glennon
Edited by Thomas Reilly
Music by Ray Heindorf
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • February 28, 1951 (1951-02-28)(Nashville) [1]
  • May 23, 1952 (1952-05-23)(New York) [2]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.6 million (U.S.) [3]

About Face is a 1952 American Warner Bros. Pictures musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken and Virginia Gibson. Future Oscar winner Joel Grey appears in his film debut. The film is an adaptation of the 1936 play Brother Rat written by John Monks Jr. and Fred F. Finklehoffe and a remake of the 1938 film of the same title. [2]

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Plot

Three friends enlist at a military academy in the American South. While two of them pursue romantic entanglements, the third tries hide that he is secretly married and expecting a child.

Cast

Release

The world premiere of About Face was held in Nashville, Tennessee on February 28, 1952 to open the new Tennessee Theatre, with most of the film's stars in attendance. [1]

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times , critic Howard Thompson wrote: "The rowdy spontaneity of the original is completely lost in a stale script by Peter Milne, overstuffed with inane dialogue and feeble gags. Under the direction of Roy Del Ruth, 'About Face' marches along at a snail's pace ... And instead of lubricating the continuity, the musical portion almost smothers it. ... Dull though the film may be, it is both clean and pretty." [2]

The film was a box-office failure. Bracken later said that "the main reason why audiences rejected About Face, I think, is that most of us were too damn old for the roles." [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "'About Face' Prankish Comedy of Military Academy Life". The Nashville Tennessean . February 24, 1952. p. T3-E.
  2. 1 2 3 Thompson, Howard (May 24, 1952). "The Screen in Review". The New York Times . p. 15.
  3. ↑ "Top Grossers of 1952". Variety . 189 (5): 61. January 7, 1953.
  4. ↑ McClelland, Doug (1989). Hollywood Talks Turkey - The Screen's Greatest Flops. Starbrite.
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