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Director:
Otto Preminger
Writers:
Arthur Kober (writer)
Michael Uris (writer)
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Release Date:
22 September 1944 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | War more
Tagline:
A gay and tender story of G.I. love!
Plot:
A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Jeanne Crain ... Margaret 'Maggie' Preston
Frank Latimore ... Lt. Daniel Ferguson
Eugene Pallette ... Henry B. Preston
Mary Nash ... Mrs. Vera Preston
Stanley Prager ... Lt. Philip 'Red' Pianatowski
Gale Robbins ... Shirley Pianatowski
Jane Randolph ... Mrs. Jerry Armstrong
Doris Merrick ... Mrs. MacAndrews
Cara Williams ... Ruby Mae Sayre
Ann Corcoran ... Mrs. Bennett
Reed Hadley ... Maj. Phillips
Heather Angel ... Mrs. Nelson
Bonnie Bannon ... Mrs. Farnum
William Colby ... Lt. Farnum
Cliff Clark ... Col. Corkery
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Runtime:
72 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation more

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Boot Camp for Brides, 15 January 2009
5/10
Author: dougdoepke from Claremont, USA

Slender little wartime comedy whose best feature is a winsome young Jeanne Crain and a lively Gale Robbins as new brides. The boys are training in the desert before being shipped overseas. In the meantime, the married officers are boarding at what looks like the only house for miles around. Many of the junior officers are newly married and much of the comedy comes from their efforts to cope. For the girls, it's a period of adjustment sharing facilities and household duties with others. For Crain, with her privileged background, adjustment proves especially difficult.

The premise is promising, but the screenplay remains underdeveloped and never really gels as a comedy. That's not surprising since the running time is 70 minutes for a production probably chunked out in 10 days and scheduled for bottom-of-the-bill showing to the eager droves of wartime audiences. Also, cult director Otto Preminger seems an odd choice for light comedy, his strength being slow, heavy psychological dramas like Laura (1943). The results here suggest he was uninterested in the material, to say the least. Nonetheless, for those interested in how newly-weds adjusted to wartime demands, the movie offers a generally entertaining if lightweight glimpse.

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