The Baby and the Battleship
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Director Jay Lewis Music director Humphrey Searle Language English | 5.2/10 IMDb Duration Genre Comedy Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast John Mills (Puncher Roberts), Richard Attenborough (Knocker White), André Morell (Marshal)Release date 1956 Writer Anthony Thorne (novel), Jay Lewis (screenplay), Gilbert Hackforth-Jones (screenplay), Bryan Forbes (additional scenes and dialogue), Richard De Roy (screenplay), Richard De Roy (story) Adapted from The Baby and the Battleship Similar movies Law and Disorder (1958), Three Men in a Boat (1956), Brothers in Law (1957), Girls at Sea (1958), Sailors Three (1940) Tagline It all starts when a sailor's left holding the baby! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Baby and the Battleship is a colour 1956 British comedy film directed by Jay Lewis and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell. It is based on the 1956 novel by Anthony Thorne with a screenplay by Richard De Roy, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones and Bryan Forbes. The Royal Navy provided a large amount of cooperation with sequences filmed aboard HMS Birmingham and in Malta.
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Plot
When a group of Royal Navy sailors go ashore on shore leave to Naples, they are forced to care for a baby, separated from its mother. During a brawl, Puncher Roberts is knocked unconscious and finds the square empty, except for the baby. Unable to find his friend Knocker, or the child's mother, he smuggles the baby aboard their ship in the midst of a series of joint operations with Allied navies off the coast of Italy.
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Reception
The film was one of the ten most popular movies at the British box office in 1956.
References
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