The Wife Takes a Flyer
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Release: 1942-04-28
·Runtime: 86m
·★ 4.5
War
Comedy
Romance
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
Cast
Vernon Downing
as English Officer
Max Hoffman Jr.
as Sergeant
Franchot Tone
as Christopher Reynolds
Mary Young
as Old Lady
Aubrey Mather
as Chief Justice
John Merton
as German Soldier
James Millican
as Gestapo Agent
Erik Rolf
as Gestapo Leader
Joan Bennett
as Anita Woverman
Lyle Latell
as Muller
Marie Blake
as Frieda
Wheaton Chambers
as Chaplain
Bert Roach
as Guldschreschts
Allyn Joslyn
as Major Zellfritz
Romaine Callender
as Zanten
Hugh Beaumont
as Officer
Cecil Cunningham
as Countess Oldenburg
Roger Clark
as Keith
Margaret Seddon
as The Twin
Nora Cecil
as Miss Updike
Stella LeSaint
as Woman
Lloyd Whitlock
as Head Waiter
Hans Conried
as Hendrik Woverman
Lloyd Corrigan
as Thomas Woverman
Kurt Katch
as Capt. Schmutnick
Henry Victor
as Col. Bosch
Georgia Caine
as Mrs. Woverman
John Vosper
as German Sergeant
Chester Clute
as Adolphe Bietjelboer
Gertrude Hoffmann
as Mrs. Gruyson
David Newell
as German Officer
William Edmunds
as Gustav
Lloyd Bridges
as German Sergeant
Cy Kendall
as Gestapo Agent
George Turner
as German Officer
Barbara Brown
as Maria Woverman
Erskine Sanford
as Jan
Joe McGuinn
as Lieutenant
Gordon Richards
as Maj. Wilson
Steven Geray
as Gestapo Agent
