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The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
Directed by Jay Lewis
“It all starts when a sailor's left holding the baby!”
Comedy · 1h 36m
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
Cast
John Mills
Puncher Roberts
Richard Attenborough
Knocker White
André Morell
Marshal
Bryan Forbes
Prof. Evans
Michael Hordern
Capt. Hugh
Ernest Clark
Cmdr. Geoffrey Digby
Harry Locke
CPO Blades
M
Michael Howard
Joe
Lionel Jeffries
George
Clifford Mollison
Sails
John Le Mesurier
The Marshal’s Aide
Ferdy Mayne
Interpreter
Crew
- Director
- Jay Lewis
- Screenplay
- Jay Lewis, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones, Richard De Roy
- Novel
- Anthony Thorne
- Director of Photography
- Harry Waxman
- Editor
- Manuel del Campo
- Producer
- Antony Darnborough
Details
- Release date
- 1956-06-01
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- British Lion Film Corporation, Jay Lewis Productions