Cicely Courtneidge

Tom Walls

Barry MacKay

Alfred Drayton

Iris Ashley

Ivor McLaren

Gibb McLaughlin

Peter Gawthorne

Cecil Parker

George Merritt

Cyril Smith

Mickey Brantford

Randle Ayrton

Henry Oscar

Percy Walsh

Donald Calthrop

Frank Atkinson

Marcus Barron

Kenneth Buckley

Syd Crossley

Howard Marion-Crawford

John Mortimer

Finlay Currie

Victor Saville

Marjorie Gaffney

Reginald Pound

Ian Hay

Michael Balcon

W.P. Lipscomb

Sidney Stone

Alfred Junge

Charles Van Enger

Curt Courant

Philip Dorté

Comedy

Romance

Me and Marlborough

Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

United Kingdom

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When inn-keeper "Kit" (Cicely Courtneidge) discovers that her new husband has been pressed into the army of Queen Anne on the evening following her wedding, she sets about trying to retrieve him from his new, precarious, position. Dressed as a man, she gets herself posted to the front and through cunning manipulation of her rather dopey superiors - including the Duke of Marlborough (Tom Walls) himself - she proves more than a match for them, and the opposing French. It's a whimsy of a film, this - a vehicle for a haughty Courteneidge with competent, if not exactly hysterically funny, support from a cast that indulge both her style and the pretty lacklustre writing. It has some humour, and demonstrates well that women were in no way inferior to their men folks, but the joke really does wear thin and the ending (somewhat tied by history) is never really in question. The star has a decent go at a Noel Gay number which proves she can hold a tune, just not one of his best!

English