Main Cast: Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Noel Purcell
Release Year: 1961
Country: UK
Run Time: 88 minutes
Plot
Based on the play Something About a Sailor by Earle Couttie, this film is a screwball comedy about the British navy. Kenneth Connor is Officer Blissworth, who is an inept bungler of a sailor. With an equally inadequate partner, Captain David Foster (Eric Barker), he loses the plans for modifying an important torpedo during the testing of a prototype for the revised model. They try to cover up their mistake by giving a set of plans to Admiral Sir Humphrey Pettigrew (Noel Purcell) that detail their ship's refrigeration system. The scheme works for awhile, but then the bumblers discover that a female inspector is scheduled to do the testing of the torpedo. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Spike Milligan - Dockyard matey; Eric Sykes - 2nd Dockyard Matey; Sidney James - Chief Petty Officer Mundy; Ed Devereaux - Commander Phillips; David Lodge - Security Sergeant; Victor Maddern - 1st Sailor; Robin Ray - Flag Lieutenant; George Street - 2nd Security Guard; Peter Howell - Admiral's Secretary; Michael Brennan - Security Guard; Arch Taylor - Coxswain; Richard Bennett - Officer of the Day; Leila Williams - Wren Driver; Rory MacDermot - 3rd Security Guard; Eric Corrie - Engineer Officer
Credit
Carmen Dillon - Art Director, Joan Ellacott - Costume Designer, Gerald Thomas - Director, John Shirley - Editor, Bruce Montgomery - Composer (Music Score), Alex Garfath - Makeup, Edward Scaife - Cinematographer, Peter Rogers - Producer, Peter Lamont - Set Designer, Vivian A. Cox - Screenwriter, Alan Hackney - Screenwriter, Earle Couttie - Play Author
