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Operation Bullshine 
Original film posterDirected by Gilbert Gunn Produced by Frank Godwin Written by Anne Burbnaby
Rupert Lang
Gilbert GunnStarring Donald Sinden
Barbara Murray
Carole LesleyMusic by Laurie Johnson Cinematography Gilbert Taylor Distributed by Associated British Picture Corporation Release date(s) 30 June 1959 Running time 84 mins. Country United Kingdom Language English Operation Bullshine is a 1959 British colour comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray and Carole Lesley.[1] The working title of the film was Girls in Arms that features in the film as a marching song.[2] Gunn had filmed Girls at Sea the previous year. The new title comes from a the frenzied activity preparing for their Brigadier's surprise inspection. The film features 1956 Olympic swimmer Judy Grinham as a Physical Training Instructor. The film was released in the USA in 1963 by Seven Arts Productions.
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Plot
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying to much attention to the other ATS women.
Cast
- Donald Sinden - Lieutenant Gordon Brown
- Barbara Murray - Private Betty Brown
- Carole Lesley - Private Marge White
- Ronald Shiner - Gunner Slocum
- Naunton Wayne - Major Pym
- Dora Bryan - Private Cox
- John Cairney - Gunner Willie Ross
- Fabia Drake - Junior Commander Maddox A.T.S.
- Joan Rice - Private Finch
- Daniel Massey - Bombardier Peter Palmer
- Peter Jones - Gunner Perkins
- Barbara Hicks - Sergeant Merrifield
- John Welsh - Brigadier
- Judy Grinham - P.T. Instructress
- Cyril Chamberlain - Orderly Sergeant
- Ambrosine Phillpotts - Reporter
- Naomi Chance as Subaltern Godfrey A.T.S.
- Marianne Stone as Sergeant Cook
References
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/45250
- ^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=557491&category=Notes
External links
The films of Gilbert Gunn 1950s Valley of Song (1953) • The Good Beginning (1953) • My Wife's Family (1956) • The Strange World of Planet X (1958) • Girls at Sea (1958) • Operation Bullshine (1959)1960s What a Whopper (1961) • Wings of Mystery (1961)Categories:- British films
- English-language films
- 1959 films
- Films directed by Gilbert Gunn
- 1950s comedy films
- British comedy films
- Films set in the 1940s
- World War II films
- Military humor in film
- 1950s British film stubs
- 1950s comedy film stubs
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