Movie · 1954
Orders Are Orders
Released 1 October 1954 78 min Comedy More from 1954 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
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How old were they?
Edward Lexy
as Capt. Ledger
Raymond Huntley
as Col. Fred Bellamy
Clive Morton
as Gen. Sir Cuthbert Grahame-Foxe
Barry MacKay
as R.S.M. Benson
Bill Fraser
as Pvt. Slee
Margot Grahame
as Wanda Sinclair
Brian Reece
as Capt. Bill Harper
Sidney James
as Ed Waggermeyer
Donald Pleasence
as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
Eric Sykes
as Pvt. Waterhouse
Tony Hancock
as Lt. Wilfred Cartroad
Peter Sellers
as Pvt. Goffin
Peter Martyn
as Lt. John Broke
June Thorburn
as Veronica Bellamy
Maureen Swanson
as Joanne Delamere
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The numbers
36years between the oldest and youngest billed
57Edward Lexy — oldest on the call sheet
21Maureen Swanson — youngest billed
38average age of the credited cast