The Gaieties of the Squadron

1913 French film
  • Joseph Faivre
  • Maurice Tourneur
Written by
  • Georges Courteline (play)
  • Maurice Tourneur
Production
company
Distributed bySociété Française des Films Éclair
Release date
  • 24 October 1913 (1913-10-24)
CountryFranceLanguages
  • Silent
  • French intertitles

The Gaieties of the Squadron (French: Les gaîtés de l'escadron) is a 1913 French silent comedy film directed by Joseph Faivre and Maurice Tourneur and starring Edmond Duquesne, Henry Roussel and Henri Gouget.[1] It is a military-based farce adapted from the popular play by Georges Courteline. Tourneur later remade it as a sound film Fun in the Barracks (1932).

Plot

The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.

Cast

  • Edmond Duquesne as Capitaine Hurtulet
  • Henry Roussel as Le général
  • Henri Gouget as L'adjudant Flick
  • Pierre Delmonde
  • Maurice de Féraudy
  • Charles Krauss
  • Fernande Petit
  • Polaire

References

  1. ^ Waldman p.7

Bibliography

  • Waldman, Harry. Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2001.

External links

  • The Gaieties of the Squadron at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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