What Changed Charley Farthing

What Changed Charley Farthing? (also known as The Bananas Boat), is a 1974 British comedy film, directed by Sidney Hayers. It was filmed on location in Aguilas, Spain, which filled in for Havana. During filming on a ship in the bay, Lionel Jeffries dove into the water and went for a swim. He had swum several hundred feet from the ship when those on board noticed a motor boat approaching at high speed. As those on deck waved frantically at the boat, trying to warn of Jeffries’ presence in the water, those on the speeding boat thought they were just being friendly and waved back, oblivious to the actor bobbing in the water. They missed running him over by a mere few feet. When "Charley" wrapped, Mr. McClure returned to the U.S. to star in the short lived series "Search", with filming beginning in the summer of 1972.

Contents

• Plot
• Cast
• Release
• Critical reception
• References

Plot

Roaming sailor Charley Farthing is paid to give safe passage out of revolutionary Cuba to a young woman (Hayley Mills) and her father (Lionel Jeffries).

Cast

Doug McClure.....Charley Farthing

Lionel Jeffries.....Houlihan

Hayley Mills.....Jenny

Warren Mitchell - MacGregor

Dilys Hamlett - Miss Parchment

Alberto de Mendoza - Jumbo

Victor Israel - Christmas

Fernando Sancho - Lupez

Luis Marín - Hatta Luis

Ricardo Palacios - Greek Captain

Release

What Changed Charley Farthing? was not released in the United States until January 1976, when it was retitled The Bananas Boat.

Critical reception

TV Guide called it "a total misfire."