Pack Up Your Troubles

A great masterpiece on the Great War and its aftermath of orphans, treated unfailingly as comedy.

Marshall (a fine tough heavy à l’improviste) says he never saw McCarey on the set but takes it for granted he was responsible for the second-unit victory in the trenches (a tank takes Laurel & Hardy through the barbed wire at night, roping in Huns on the return), among other things, according to Skretvedt.