Over 21

Aug 8, 1945

1h 42m

★ 5.2

Three delightful players in a comedy modern, fast-paced and hilarious...

Overview

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Over 21 Trailers

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Cast

Paula 'Polly' Wharton

Irene Dunne

Max W. Wharton

Alexander Knox

Robert Drexel Gow

Charles Coburn

Jan Lupton

Jeff Donnell

Lt. Roy Lupton

Loren Tindall

Mrs. Foley

Lee Patrick

Frank MacDougal

Phil Brown

Mrs. Gates

Cora Witherspoon

Colonel Foley

Charles Evans

Officer Candidate's Wife (uncredited)

Abigail Adams

Officer Candidate's Wife (uncredited)

Francine Ames

Man in Gow's Outer Office (uncredited)

Brooks Benedict

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3.5

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5.6

This Is the Army

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5.6

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5.8

Playing It Cool

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6.0

Private Benjamin

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8.7

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4.9

Baby on Board

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5.5

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6.3

Yanks Ahoy

Jun 29, 1943

Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

5.3

At War with the Army

Dec 31, 1950

Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby.

7.5

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

6.5

Gunga Din

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British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

6.4

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6.7

Cul-de-sac

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7.2

The Player

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6.3

Buffalo Soldiers

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4.3

Best Defense

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An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.