Pvt. William 'Old Bill' Busby
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The Better 'Ole is a 1926 American synchronized sound World War I comedy drama film. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. , this film is the second full-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process, two months after the first Vitaphone feature Don Juan ; with no audible dialogue, the film does have a synchronized musical score ...
The Better 'Ole, also called The Romance of Old Bill, is an Edwardian musical comedy with a book by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, music by Herman Darewski, and lyrics by Percival Knight and James Heard, based on the cartoon character Old Bill, an infantryman, drawn by Bairnsfather.
The Better 'Ole: Directed by Charles Reisner. With Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd, Edgar Kennedy. The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
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- Comedy, War, Drama
- Charles Reisner
- 1926-10-23
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- 95 min
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After an opening framing what was then "The Great War" and frustrated British commanders, we meet first heroic Bert (Harold Goodwin), then the star, Charlie's elder brother Sydney Chaplin as "Old Bill," and sidekick (Jack Ackroyd), early in The Better 'Ole, 1926, 'Ole short for fox-hole.
- Charles Reisner, Sandy Roth
- Sydney Chaplin
Summaries. The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War. Synopsis. Private William 'Old Bill' Busby (Syd Chaplin), was a 30 year pipe smoking veteran of Her Majesty's Service with a walrus mustache.
Ralph Flint Christian Science Monitor The well-known Bairnsfather opus, The Better 'Ole, has been made into an amusing screen comedy, with Sydney Chaplin taking the part of Old Bill, and the ...
- Comedy
