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    The Gaieties of the Squadron

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    The Gaieties of the Squadron
    Directed by
    • Joseph Faivre
    • Maurice Tourneur
    Written by
    • Georges Courteline (play)
    • Maurice Tourneur
    Production
    company
    Société Française des Films Éclair
    Distributed bySociété Française des Films Éclair
    Release date
    • 24 October 1913 (1913-10-24)
    CountryFrance
    Languages
    • Silent
    • French intertitles

    The Gaieties of the Squadron (French: Les gaîtés de l'escadron) is a 1913 French silent comedy film directed by Joseph Faivre and Maurice Tourneur and starring Edmond Duquesne, Henry Roussel and Henri Gouget.[1] It is a military-based farce adapted from the popular play by Georges Courteline. Tourneur later remade it as a sound film Fun in the Barracks (1932).

    Plot

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    The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.

    Cast

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    • Edmond Duquesne as Capitaine Hurtulet
    • Henry Roussel as Le général
    • Henri Gouget as L'adjudant Flick
    • Pierre Delmonde
    • Maurice de Féraudy
    • Charles Krauss
    • Fernande Petit
    • Polaire

    References

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    1. ^ Waldman p.7

    Bibliography

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    • Waldman, Harry. Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2001.
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