Overview:
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.| Status: | Released (1936-12-01) |
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| Screen: | Robert Stevenson, Leslie Arliss, Marriott Edgar |
| Productions: | Gainsborough Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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John Chard
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What shall we do with the drunken sailor? Captain Ben Cutlet likes to spin yarns about all of his (fake) seafaring adventures, one day his false past comes to bite him as he is bluffed into captaining the Rob Roy at sea, the Rob Roy being barely sea worthy and doomed to be wrecked ....
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