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Anybody's War (1930)

Anybody's War poster
Directed by
Richard Wallace
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two comedians in blackface travel to the front lines of World War I in France. They get tangled up in a romantic story.

light-hearteddatedslapstickromanticwhimsicalperiod piece

What happens

Anybody's War is a 1930 American pre-Code "Two Black Crows" comedy film directed by Richard Wallace and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Hector Turnbull and Walter Weems. The film stars George Moran, Charles Mack, Joan Peers, Neil Hamilton, Walter Weems and Betty Farrington. The film was released on July 10, 1930, by Paramount Pictures. The film features Moran and Mack in blackface going to the frontline of the war in France and involved in a love story. The film is an adaptation of Charles E. Mack's Two Black Crows in the A.E.F. Columbia Records published a recording of the performers acting out the show. The film followed their 1929 film Why Bring That Up?. They also had a radio show. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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