# His First Command > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/His_First_Command > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/His_First_Command.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_First_Command > Source revision: 1339490313 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1929 film His First Command Directed by Gregory La Cava Written by Jack Jungmeyer James Gleason Gregory La Cava Produced by Ralph Block Starring William Boyd Dorothy Sebastian Gavin Gordon Cinematography John J. Mescall Arthur C. Miller Edited by Doane Harrison Production company Pathé Exchange Distributed by Pathé Exchange Release date December 28, 1929 (1929-12-28) Running time 65 minutes Country United States Language English ***His First Command*** is a 1929 American [pre-Code](/source/Pre-Code) [comedy](/source/Comedy_film) [action film](/source/Action_film) directed by [Gregory La Cava](/source/Gregory_La_Cava) and starring [William Boyd](/source/William_Boyd_(actor)), [Dorothy Sebastian](/source/Dorothy_Sebastian) and [Gavin Gordon](/source/Gavin_Gordon_(actor)).[1] [Location shooting](/source/Location_shooting) took place at [Fort Riley](/source/Fort_Riley) in [Kansas](/source/Kansas). The film featured color sequences in [Multicolor](/source/Multicolor). ## Synopsis The film A playboy falls in love with the daughter of the commandant of an American post. He enlists in order to be close to her, but soon finds that his manners irritate the other soldiers. ## Cast Multicolor scene from "His First Command" 1929 depicting Dorothy Sebastian and Helen Parrish - [William Boyd](/source/William_Boyd_(actor)) as Terry Culver - [Dorothy Sebastian](/source/Dorothy_Sebastian) as Judy Gaylord - [Gavin Gordon](/source/Gavin_Gordon_(actor)) as Lt. Freddie Allen - [Helen Parrish](/source/Helen_Parrish) as Jane Sargent - [Alphonse Ethier](/source/Alphonse_Ethier) as Col. Gaylord - [Howard Hickman](/source/Howard_Hickman) as Maj. Hall - [Paul Hurst](/source/Paul_Hurst_(actor)) as Sgt. Westbrook - [Jules Cowles](/source/Jules_Cowles) as Cpl. Jones - [Rose Tapley](/source/Rose_Tapley) as Mrs. Pike - [Mabel Van Buren](/source/Mabel_Van_Buren) as Mrs. Sargent - [Charles R. Moore](/source/Charles_R._Moore_(actor)) as Homer ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Munden p.352 ## Bibliography - Munden, Kenneth White. *The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1*. University of California Press, 1997. ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [His First Command](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:His_First_Command). - [*His First Command*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019987/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Gregory La Cava Silent His Nibs (1921) The New School Teacher (1924) Restless Wives (1924) Womanhandled (1925) Let's Get Married (1926) Say It Again (1926) So's Your Old Man (1926) Paradise for Two (1927) Running Wild (1927) Tell It to Sweeney (1927) The Gay Defender (1927) Feel My Pulse (1928) Half a Bride (1928) Sound Big News (1929) Saturday's Children (1929) His First Command (1929) Laugh and Get Rich (1931) Smart Woman (1931) Symphony of Six Million (1932) The Age of Consent (1932) The Half Naked Truth (1932) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) Bed of Roses (1933) Gallant Lady (1934) What Every Woman Knows (1934) The Affairs of Cellini (1934) Private Worlds (1935) She Married Her Boss (1935) My Man Godfrey (1936) Stage Door (1937) Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) Primrose Path (1940) Unfinished Business (1941) Lady in a Jam (1942) Living in a Big Way (1947) One Touch of Venus (1948) Category This article related to an American film of the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1920s-US-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1920s-US-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1920s-US-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [His First Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_First_Command) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_First_Command?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.