About Face

Apr 16, 1942

0h 43m

★ 6.0

The famous fun feud of "Tanks a Million!" goes on !

Overview

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Hal Roach Studios

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Cast

Sgt. Dorian 'Dodo' Doubleday

William Tracy

Sgt. William Ames

Joe Sawyer

Sally

Jean Porter

Betty Marlowe

Marjorie Lord

Mrs. Culpepper

Margaret Dumont

Daisy, Blonde Hustler

Veda Ann Borg

Col. Gunning

Joe Cunningham

Capt. Caldwell

Harold Goodwin

Bartender Jerry

Frank Faylen

Bartender Charlie

Dick Wessel

Rental Car Manager

Charles Lane

Barfly (uncredited)

John Berkes

American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.

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