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Professional Soldier is a film of genre Drama directed by Tay Garnett released in USA on 27 december 1935 with Victor McLaglen

Professional Soldier (1935)

Professional Soldier
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Released in USA 27 december 1935
Length 1h15
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Action,    Adventure
Rating62% 3.142433.142433.142433.142433.14243

Professional Soldier is a 1935 adventure film based on a 1931 story by Damon Runyon, "Gentlemen, the King!" It stars Victor McLaglen and Freddie Bartholomew. The film was directed by Tay Garnett, and produced by Twentieth Century Fox.

Synopsis

Michael Donovan (McLaglen), a soldier of fortune and former Marine colonel, is fed up with his latest job: keeping spoiled playboy George Foster (Michael Whalen) out of trouble from women and liquor. Thus, he is eager to accept when revolutionaries Valdis (Lumsden Hare) and Ledgard (Walter Kingsford) want to hire him to kidnap King Peter II, ruler of a country somewhere in the Balkans. When a drunken Foster wakes up and interrupts their meeting, Donovan calls him his aide.

Actors

Victor McLaglen

(Colonel Michael Donovan)Freddie Bartholomew

(King Peter II)Gloria Stuart

(Countess Sonia)Constance Collier

(Lady Augusta)Joseph Kenneth Shovlin

(George Foster)
And :
C. Henry Gordon
Pedro de Cordoba
Lumsden Hare
Walter Kingsford
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