Me and Marlborough (1935)
Directed by Victor Saville
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this British comedy, the owner of a country pub finds her wedding night ruined when a man comes up and offers her husband a shilling. He accepts it, but discovers that it is really the Queen's bounty for enlistment and that the kindly man is the local recruiting officer. The bride decides she must be with her man and ends up impersonating one to be with him. Eventually she saves him from the French.
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cross-dressing, deception, pub, soldier, wedding-night