Sons O' Guns
1936 film by Lloyd Bacon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sons O' Guns is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Jerry Wald and Julius J. Epstein. It stars Joe E. Brown, and features Joan Blondell, with Beverly Roberts, Eric Blore, Craig Reynolds and Wini Shaw. It was released by Warner Bros. on May 30, 1936.[2][3]
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Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
Screenplay by | Jerry Wald Julius J. Epstein |
Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
Starring | Joe E. Brown |
Cinematography | Sol Polito |
Edited by | James Gibbon[1] |
Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 82 or 85 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The film is based on a stage musical of the same name with book by Fred Thompson and Jack Donohue, music by J. Fred Coots, and lyrics by Arthur Swanstrom and Benny Davis, which played on Broadway for 295 performances beginning on November 26, 1929.[4] Only one song from the stage production was used, "Over Here", the two other songs in the film ā "Arms of an Army Man" and "A Buck and a Quarter a Day" ā were written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin.[5][6]