''O.H.M.S.'' (US title ''You're in the Army Now'') is a 1937 British adventure film directed by
Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh (born Albert Edward Walsh; March 11, 1887December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent cinema actor George Walsh. He wa ...
and starring
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford (born Samuel Grundy Jones; 12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English–American vaudevillian, stage performer and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with ...
,
John Mills
Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He excelled on camera as an appealing British everyman who often portray ...
, Anna Lee and Grace Bradley. The film score was composed by Jack Beaver.
Plot
An American gangster evades the New York (state), New York Police's pursuit of him for a murder he didn't commit by fleeing to England with the victim's papers, having assumed his identity. Once in England he joins the British Army and finds romance and adventure on campaign in China.
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Cast
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Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford (born Samuel Grundy Jones; 12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English–American vaudevillian, stage performer and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with ...
as Jimmy Tracy
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John Mills
Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He excelled on camera as an appealing British everyman who often portray ...
as Corporal Bert Dawson
* Anna Lee as Sally Briggs
* Grace Bradley as Jean Burdett
* Frank Cellier (actor), Frank Cellier as RSM Briggs
* Peter Croft as Student
* Frederick Leister as Vice-Consul
* Atholl Fleming as Military Instructor (uncredited)
Production
Seeking to use cinema to counter the anti-militarist and pacifistic public atmosphere that predominated in the late 1930s in England, and foster an Anglo-American spirit on either side of the Atlantic Ocean in the prelude to the outbreak of World War II, the Gaumont British Picture Corporation engaged the American Director
Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh (born Albert Edward Walsh; March 11, 1887December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent cinema actor George Walsh. He wa ...
, and the Anglo-American star
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford (born Samuel Grundy Jones; 12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English–American vaudevillian, stage performer and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with ...
to produce a film showing life in the British Army in an entertaining and positive light, in the same manner that Walsh had done for the United States Marines Corps in ''What Price Glory? (1926 film), What Price Glory?''.
The film was shot at Gainsborough Studios in London, and renamed ''You're in the Army Now!'' for its American release.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward Carrick.
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1937 films
British comedy films
British war films
British adventure films
1937 comedy films
Films directed by Raoul Walsh
Films set in China
Films set in New York City
Films set in England
Films scored by Jack Beaver
Films scored by Louis Levy
British black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s British films
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