The major and the minor / a Paramount picture ; written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder ; from a story by Fannie Kilbourne ; produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. ; directed by Billy Wilder.
Publisher:
Arrow Academy,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (26 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson. Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1942. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: new audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin; Half fare please!, a newly filmed video appreciation by film critic Neil Sinyard; archival interview with Ray Milland; rare hour-long radio adaptation from 1943 starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland; image gallery; original trailer.
Summary:
Legendary actress and dancer Ginger Rogers stars as Susan Applegate, a struggling young woman who pretends to be an eleven-year old girl in order to buy a half-price train ticket. Fleeing the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby. When they arrive at the military academy where Kirby teaches, his fianceĢe grows suspicious of Susan's ruse.
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