About Face (1952 film)

About Face is a 1952 American musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken and Virginia Gibson. It was future Oscar winner Joel Grey's film debut. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of the 1936 play Brother Rat by John Monks Jr. and Fred F. Finklehoffe and a remake of the 1938 film of the same title.

Synopsis
Three friends enlist at a military academy in the American South. While two of them pursue romantic entanglements, the third tries to keep quiet the fact he is secret married and his wife is expecting a child.

Cast

 * Gordon MacRae as Tony Williams
 * Eddie Bracken as Biff Roberts
 * Dick Wesson as Dave Crouse
 * Virginia Gibson as Betty Long
 * Phyllis Kirk as Alice Wheatley
 * Aileen Stanley Jr. as Lorna Carter
 * Joel Grey as Bender
 * Larry Keating as Colonel Long
 * Cliff Ferre as Lieut. Jones
 * John Baer as Hal Carlton
 * Mabel Albertson as Mrs. Carter
 * James Best as 	Joe
 * Ferris Taylor as 	Doctor

Reception
The film was a box-office failure. Bracken later said that "the main reason why audiences rejected About Face, I think, is that most of us were too damn old for the roles."