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Me and Marlborough
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Wikipedia article
'Me and Marlborough' is a 1935 British comedy film, directed by Victor Saville, and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Oscar and Cecil Parker.
Plot
Sergeant Cummings searches Kit Ross's pub for a deserter drummer boy. When he finds the lad, Kit leads the pub patrons in attacking the sergeant's men, and the young man gets away, for which she is put in stocks. While there, she plans her impending wedding to Dick Welch. However, Cummings gets his revenge. On the night of the wedding, he tricks Dick into taking a shilling, which means he has enlisted in the army. She watches as a ship takes him to the fighting. Undaunted, she disguises herself as a man named Simon and joins up with the Duke of Marlborough's army in Flanders to find her missing husband.
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Reception
Writing for 'The Spectator', Graham Greene criticized the theatrical qualities of Courtneidge's performance, claiming that "I found myself too embarrassed by Miss Courtneidge's facial contortions to appreciate their share. Miss Courtneidge is used to throwing her effects to the back row of a theatre gallery, and the camera is not kind to her exaggerations". (reprinted in: )
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Category:1935 films
Category:1930s historical comedy films
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:British historical comedy films
Category:Films directed by Victor Saville
Category:Films produced by Michael Balcon
Category:Films set in the 18th century
Category:Films set in England
Category:Films set in France
Category:Films scored by Jack Beaver
Category:1935 comedy films
Category:1930s English-language films
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