Edward John Mcdermott

Military Comedy Films

• Author(s): Hal Erickson

• Categories: Performing Arts

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-08-21
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• Publisher: McFarland

Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military comedy film has been one of Hollywood's most durable genres. This generously illustrated history examines over 225 Army, Navy and Marine-related comedies produced between 1918 and 2009, including the abundance of laughspinners released during World War II in the wake of Abbott and Costello's phenomenally successful Buck Privates (1941), and the many lighthearted service films of the immediate postwar era, among them Mister Roberts (1955) and No Time for Sergeants (1958). Also included are discussions of such subgenres as silent films (The General), military-academy farces (Brother Rat), women in uniform (Private Benjamin), misfits making good (Stripes), anti-war comedies (MASH), and fact-based films (The Men Who Stare at Goats). A closing filmography is included in this richly detailed volume.

The City Record

• Author(s): New York (N.Y.)

• Categories: New York (N.Y

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1886
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval ...

• Author(s): United States. Department of the Interior

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1903
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report

• Author(s): Belmont (Mass.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1893
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Register of Retired Commissioned and Warrant Officers, Regular and Reserve, of the United States Navy

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1990
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• Publisher: Unknown

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