'Serenading Lieutenant'
Serenadiluutnantti (Serenadlöjtnanten)
Le lieutenant à la sérénade (French title)
Der Serenaden-Leutnant (German title)

Finland 1949 B/W 75min Oy Suomen Filmiteollisuus

½

Musical

cast: Henry Theel (Ilmari Linnamaa/Kalle Oinas), Siiri Angerkoski (Lilja Muhonen), Ossi Elstelä (Paavo Holopainen), Sinikka Koskela (Irene Parola), Kalle Viherpuu (Ville Mäkinen), Arvo Lehesmaa (Otto Parola), Kullervo Kalske, Markus Rautio/Markus-setä, Laila Rihte, Kaarlo Wilska, Kirsti Ortola
credits: dir. Ossi Elstelä, prod. T.J. Särkkä, music Toivo Kärki, script Topias

This is bad. Henry Theel was a first rate singer, but not an actor. He was the Finnish Mario Lanza. Women loved him like women loved Rudolph Valentino.

Well, poor Henry is not only bad actor in this strange farce. The director himself tries to play a recruit. That's because he and Mr. Theel's character have got into wrong bus and that brings them to an army camp where nobody realises that they are not real recruits... The director was 50 years old when they shot this and it shows. I wonder why nobody in the film's army didn't realise that...

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