The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.
Jack Rutherford
- MP Sergeant
- (as John Rutherford)
Original John Tiller Girls
- Performers
- (as The Tiller Sunshine Girls)
William Bechtel
- Restaurant Patron
- (uncredited)
E.H. Calvert
- Gen. Hale
- (uncredited)
Stanley Campbell
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
André Cheron
- French Waiter
- (uncredited)
Edgar De Lange
- Military Policeman
- (uncredited)
Alexander Ikonnikov
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Owen Martin
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Alan Roscoe
- Capt. Jones
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film was a hit at the box office, earning "RKO" a profit of $400,000 ($5.98M in 2019) according to studio records.
- GoofsAfter a number with Tommy and Gilbert, Annette jumps off the roof of the car, expecting to be caught by the pair, but isn't. She lands on her posterior beside the car. In the next shot, when one of the MPs run up, she's in the same position but much further from the car.
- Quotes
Annette Marshall: Are you married?
Tommy Turner: No, I just naturally look worried.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown over a battlefield scene, with barbed wire.
- SoundtracksWHISTLING THE BLUES AWAY
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Tierney
Lyrics by Anne Caldwell
Performed by Bert Wheeler & Dorothy Lee
Later danced at Pierre's café by Original John Tiller Girls
Featured review
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of soldiers during the late World War who like to be permanently on holiday in Paris. It seems in Half Shot At Sunrise that the majority of Pershing's military police force are out chasing them. And the police seem to have been trained at the Keystone Academy.
But while all this is going on Wheeler has made the acquaintance of their perennial leading lady Dorothy Lee who is the daughter of their commanding officer George MacFarlane. In fact MacFarlane would like to dally with a Mam'selle or two. If you were married to Edna May Oliver that would be understandable.
I never understood why Wheeler who was always playing these schnook characters before Woody Allen perfected them was always getting the girl. I always thought the strong end of the team was Woolsey with those wisecracks and that ever present cigar which seem to have been implanted in his mouth.
Fans of the duo and others should like this amusing military comedy.
But while all this is going on Wheeler has made the acquaintance of their perennial leading lady Dorothy Lee who is the daughter of their commanding officer George MacFarlane. In fact MacFarlane would like to dally with a Mam'selle or two. If you were married to Edna May Oliver that would be understandable.
I never understood why Wheeler who was always playing these schnook characters before Woody Allen perfected them was always getting the girl. I always thought the strong end of the team was Woolsey with those wisecracks and that ever present cigar which seem to have been implanted in his mouth.
Fans of the duo and others should like this amusing military comedy.
- bkoganbing
- Nov 8, 2015
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Details
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- Budget
- $529,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Color
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