Rotten
The flimsiness of the film's foundations and the disorder of its episodes provoke the inevitable impression that it all fell together en route.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
I Was a Male War Bride
...and this is how SHERIDAN TOOK GRANT!
1949 · 1h 45m · Approved
Comedy, Romance, War
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Overview
Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.
Director and cast
- Howard Hawks Director
- Cary Grant as Capt. Henri Rochard
- Ann Sheridan as Lt. Catherine Gates
- Marion Marshall as Lt. Kitty Lawrence
- Randy Stuart as Lt. Eloise Billings
- Bill Neff as Capt. Jack Ramsey
- William Self as Sergeant (uncredited)
- Russ Conway as Cmdr. Willis - Chaplain (uncredited)
- Gene Garrick as Tony Jowitt (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Howard Hawks's darkest comedy (1949) -- a loosely constructed, episodic film that traces the progressive humiliations suffered by Free French army captain Cary Grant.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
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