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Soldiers of the King is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Maurice Elvey released in USA on 26 march 1933 with Cicely Courtneidge

Soldiers of the King (1933)

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Released in USA 26 march 1933
Length 1h20
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Musical
Rating55% 2.7909452.7909452.7909452.7909452.790945

Soldiers of the King is a 1933 British historical comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Edward Everett Horton and Anthony Bushell. It was Courtneidge's fourth film, and the first she appeared in without her husband Jack Hulbert. Courtneidge plays the matriarch of a music hall family, in a plot that switches between the Victorian era and the 1930s present.

Filming began in August 1932. It was shot at Islington, Beaconsfield and Welwyn Studios. The film's art direction is by Alex Vetchinsky. It was popular enough to be re-issued in 1939.



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Actors

Cicely Courtneidge

(Jenny Marvello / Maisie Marvello)Edward Everett Horton

(Sebastian Marvello)Anthony Bushell

(Lt. Ronald Jamieson)Dorothy Hyson

(Judy Marvello)Frank Cellier

(Colonel Philip Markham)
And :
Olive Sloane
O. B. Clarence
Ian Wilson
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