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Director
  
Marcel Varnel

Music director
  
Charles Williams

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Cinematography
  
Arthur Crabtree

Language
  
English

Alfs Button Afloat movie poster

Writer
  
W.A. Darlington
,
Marriott Edgar
,
Val Guest
,
Ralph Smart

Release date
  
July 1938

Genres
  
Comedy, Fantasy, Parody, Adventure Film, Slapstick

Cast
  
Bud Flanagan
(Alf Higgins),
Chesney Allen
(Ches),
Jimmy Nervo
(Cecil),
Teddy Knox
(Teddy),
Charlie Naughton
(Charlie),
Jimmy Gold
(Jimmy)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Alf's Button Afloat is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne. In the film, the Crazy Gang go to sea, where one of them discovers a button on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. The film parodies the 1920 novel Alf's Button by W.A. Darlington and its subsequent film adaptations.

Cast

  • Bud Flanagan as Alf Higgins
  • Chesney Allen as Ches
  • Jimmy Nervo as Cecil
  • Teddy Knox as Teddy
  • Charlie Naughton as Charlie
  • Jimmy Gold as Jimmy
  • Alastair Sim as Eustace
  • Wally Patch as Sergeant Hawkins
  • Peter Gawthorne as Captain Driscol
  • Agnes Lauchlan as Lady Driscol
  • Glennis Lorimer as Frankie Driscol
  • James Carney as Lieutenant John Hardy
  • Wilson Coleman as surgeon
  • J.H. Roberts as Aladdin
  • Bruce Winston as Mustapha
  • Richard Cooper as Lord Wimbledon

    • References

    Alf's Button Afloat Wikipedia
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    Alfs Button Afloat IMDb Alfs Button Afloat themoviedb.org