Watch Your Stern (1961)
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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, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, (more)
- Director(s):
- Gerald Thomas
Synopsis of Watch Your Stern
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, Rovi
Complete Cast of Watch Your Stern
- Kenneth Connor - Blissworth
- Leslie Phillips - Lieutenant Commander Fanshawe
- Hattie Jacques - Agatha Potter
- Spike Milligan - Dockyard matey
- Sidney James - Chief Petty Officer Mundy
- David Lodge - Security Sergeant
- Robin Ray - Flag Lieutenant
- Peter Howell - Admiral's Secretary
- Arch Taylor - Coxswain
- Leila Williams - Wren Driver
- Eric Corrie - Engineer Officer
- Eric Barker - Capt. David Foster
- Joan Sims - Ann Foster
- Noel Purcell - Adm. Sir Humphrey Pettigrew
- Eric Sykes - 2nd Dockyard Matey
- Ed Devereaux - Commander Phillips
- Victor Maddern - 1st Sailor
- George Street - 2nd Security Guard
- Michael Brennan - Security Guard
- Richard Bennett - Officer of the Day
- Rory MacDermot - 3rd Security Guard
- Director(s):
- Gerald Thomas
- Writer(s):
- Alan Hackney, Vivian A. Cox
- Producer(s):
- Peter Rogers
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