• Source: About Face (1952 film)

      • About Face is a 1952 American musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken and Virginia Gibson. It was future Oscar winner Joel Grey's film debut. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of the 1936 play Brother Rat by John Monks Jr. and Fred F. Finklehoffe and a remake of the 1938 film of the same title.


      Synopsis


      Three friends enlist at a military academy in the American South. While two of them pursue romantic entanglements, the third tries to keep quiet the fact he is secretly married and his wife is expecting a child.


      Cast


      Gordon MacRae as Tony Williams
      Eddie Bracken as Biff Roberts
      Dick Wesson as Dave Crouse
      Virginia Gibson as Betty Long
      Phyllis Kirk as Alice Wheatley
      Aileen Stanley Jr. as Lorna Carter
      Joel Grey as Bender
      Larry Keating as Colonel Long
      Cliff Ferre as Lieut. Jones
      John Baer as Hal Carlton
      Mabel Albertson as Mrs. Carter
      James Best as Joe
      Ferris Taylor as Doctor


      Reception


      The film was a box-office failure. Bracken later said that "the main reason why audiences rejected About Face, I think, is that most of us were too damn old for the roles."


      References




      Bibliography


      Erickson, Hal. Military Comedy Films: A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918. McFarland, 2012.
      Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


      External links


      About Face at IMDb
      About Face at AllMovie
      About Face at the TCM Movie Database
      About Face at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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