Anybody's War (1930)
- Directed by
- Richard Wallace
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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