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1952 film by Roy Del Ruth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
About Face is a 1952 American musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken and Virginia Gibson.[2][3] It was future Oscar winner Joel Grey's film debut. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of the 1936 play Brother Rat by John Monks Jr. and Fred F. Finklehoffe and a remake of the 1938 film of the same title.[4]
| About Face | |
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| Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
| Screenplay by | Peter Milne |
| Based on | Brother 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 by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.6 million (US)[1] |
Three friends enlist at a military academy in the American South. While two of them pursue romantic entanglements, the third tries to keep quiet the fact he is secretly married and his wife is expecting a child.
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."[5]
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