• Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Director: Henry Edwards
• Release Year: 1937
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 71 minutes

Plot

British author W.W. Jacobs, whose love of the sea and seafarers permeated everything he wrote, was responsible for the story upon which Beauty and the Barge was based. Judy Gunn plays the headstrong daughter of an Army officer who runs away from home. She is later adopted by bargeman Gordon Harker. A very young Jack Hawkins portrays a handsome lieutenant (or "leff-tenant", if you prefer) who signs on as a common seaman on Harker's barge in hopes of winning Hawkins' love. Beauty and the Barge also features the unforgettable Margaret Rutherford, doing pretty much what she'd been still doing in movies nearly thirty years later-shamelessly stealing every scene she's in. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

George Carney - Tom Codd
Judy Gunn - Ethel Smedley
Gordon Harker - Capt. Barley
Jack Hawkins - Lt. Seton Boyne
Margaret Rutherford - Mrs. Baldwin
Michael Shepley - Herbert Manners
Ronald Shiner - Augustus
Sebastian Smith - Maj. Smedley
Margaret Yarde - Mrs. Porton
Ann Wemyss - Lucy Dallas
Margaret Scudamore - Mrs. Smedley

Credit

Sydney Blythe - Cinematographer; Henry Edwards - Director; Julius Hagen - Producer; William Jacobs - Play Author; William Luff - Cinematographer; H. Fowler Mear - Screenwriter