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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 126

Never Wave at a WAC

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Original language
English
This copy runs
86:38
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

A senator's daughter joins the Women's Army Corps hoping that family influence will send her to Paris and her boyfriend. Military training proves less accommodating than her social life. Her plans collide with a system that expects her to earn the advantages she assumed were guaranteed.

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Historical context

The Women's Army Corps supplies the real institutional setting for a fictional comedy about privilege and discipline. The film uses the contrast between civilian expectations and military routines as its principal source of humour.

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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.

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