Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
Acting
Beryl Mercer's scene-stealing mother who won't stop mourning.
Writing
Delicious irony of the 'dead' being the only sane ones.
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Richard Arlen
William 'Bill' Jones, an alias of William Foster
Beryl Mercer
Mrs. Gubbins
Claud Allister
Lord 'Spoofy' Brockton
Charles McNaughton
James 'Jimmie' Gubbins
Cecilia Parker
Ann Gordon
Dudley Digges
Inspector Briggs
Nydia Westman
Peggy 'Peg' Woofers
Jonathan Hale
Detective Bolton
Lillian Kemble-Cooper
Lady Brockton
Robert Greig
John Ferguson, Brockton's Butler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Depression-era America, the film's 1918 Armistice setting let audiences laugh at wartime trauma from safe distance.
This was a remake of a 1922 silent film and 1929 talkie—Hollywood REALLY loved this premise.
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