Orders Are Orders is a 1954 British comedy film

Comedy film

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 directed by David Paltenghi, and featuring Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...

, Sid James

Sid James

Sid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...

, Tony Hancock

Tony Hancock

Anthony John "Tony" Hancock was an English actor and comedian.-Early life and career:Hancock was born in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, but from the age of three was brought up in Bournemouth, where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in...

, Raymond Huntley

Raymond Huntley

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, Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence

Sir Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, was a British actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades...

 and Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes

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. It was a remake of the 1933 film Orders Is Orders

Orders Is Orders

Orders Is Orders is a 1934 British comedy film starring Charlotte Greenwood, James Gleason and Cyril Maude about an American film crew who move into a British army barracks to start making a film, much to the commander's horror...

.

Synopsis

A film production company decides to make a new science fiction

Science fiction

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 film in an army barracks

Barracks

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, using the soldiers as extras. This does not go down well with the commanding officer, who attempts to make life as difficult as possible for the film crew.

Cast

• Brian Reece — Captain Harper
• Margot Grahame
  Margot Grahame
  Margot Grahame was an English actress most noted for starring in The Informer and The Crimson Pirate. She started acting in 1930 and made her last screen appearance in 1958.-Movie actress:...
  
   — Wanda Sinclair
• Raymond Huntley
  Raymond Huntley
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   — Colonel Bellamy
• Sid James
  Sid James
  Sid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...
  
   — Ed Waggermeyer
• Tony Hancock
  Tony Hancock
  Anthony John "Tony" Hancock was an English actor and comedian.-Early life and career:Hancock was born in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, but from the age of three was brought up in Bournemouth, where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in...
  
   — Leuitenant Wilfred Cartroad
• Peter Sellers
  Peter Sellers
  Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...
  
   — Private Goffin
• Clive Morton
  Clive Morton
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   — General Sir Cuthbert Grahame-Foxe
• June Thorburn
  June Thorburn
  June Thorburn was a popular English actress whose career was cut short by her death in an air crash.-Early life:Thorburn was born in Karachi when the city was still in a non-independent India...
  
   — Veronica Bellamy
• Maureen Swanson — Joanne Delamere
• Peter Martyn
  Peter Martyn
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   — Leuitenant Broke
• Bill Fraser
  Bill Fraser
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   — Private Slee
• Edward Lexy
  Edward Lexy
  -Filmography:* Under Secret Orders * Mademoiselle Docteur * Farewell Again * Knight Without Armour * Action for Slander * Smash and Grab * The Green Cockatoo...
  
   — Captain Ledger
• Barry MacKay
  Barry MacKay (actor)
  Barry MacKay was a British actor.He was most prominently seen in light comedic roles in the British cinema of the 1930s and is perhaps best known as Jessie Matthews' leading man in Evergreen , Gangway and Sailing Along .Other notable roles include Lieutenant Somerville in Brown on Resolution and...
  
   — RSM Benson
• Donald Pleasence
  Donald Pleasence
  Sir Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, was a British actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades...
  
   — Corporal Martin
• Eric Sykes
  Eric Sykes
  Eric Sykes, CBE is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter...
  
   — Private Waterhouse