You Know What Sailors Are (1954 film)

You Know What Sailors Are

Directed by	Ken Annakin
Produced by	Peter Rogers Julian Wintle
Written by	Roger Hyams (novel), Peter Rogers (writer)
Music by	Malcolm Arnold
Cinematography	Reginald H. Wyer
Edited by	Alfred Roome
Production company	Group Film Productions Limited
Distributed by	General Film Distributors (UK)
Release dates	4 November 1954 (1954-11-04)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

You Know What Sailors Are is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin from a screenplay by Peter Rogers. It starred Donald Sinden, Michael Hordern, Bill Kerr, Dora Bryan and Akim Tamiroff.^[1]

Plot

Three British naval officers out on a drunken spree attach a pram and a pawnbroker's sign to the stern of a foreign naval ship. The next morning, an officer misinterprets the pram and sign as state of the art, top-secret radar equipment. Instantly, the British navy decrees that their ships be fitted with the same device. Thereafter, bureaucratic misunderstandings escalate into a major international incident.

Cast

Akim Tamiroff as President of Agraria
Donald Sinden as Lt. Sylvester Green
Sarah Lawson as Betty
Naunton Wayne as Captain Owbridge
Bill Kerr as Lt. Smart
Dora Bryan as Gladys
Martin Miller as Prof. Hyman Pfumbaum
Michael Shepley as Admiral
Michael Hordern as Captain Hamilton
Ferdy Mayne as Stanislaus Voritz of Smorznigov
Bryan Coleman as Lt. Comdr. Voles
Cyril Chamberlain as Stores Officer
Hal Osmond as Stores Petty Officer
Peter Arne as Ahmed
Shirley Lorimer as Jasmin

Critical reception

TV Guide wrote, "beautiful women fill the screen at frequent intervals in this amiable comedy"; ^[2] and Allmovie wrote, "You Know What Sailors Are top-bills Akim Tamiroff as the president of a mythical Foreign country, but the film belongs to Donald Sinden as the well-meaning young officer who precipitates the whole affair." ^[3]

References

↑ "You Know What Sailors Are! (1953)". BFI.
↑ "You Know What Sailors Are". TVGuide.com.
↑ Hal Erickson. "You Know What Sailors Are (1954) - Ken Annakin - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.

External links

You Know What Sailors Are at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ken Annakin

It Began on the Clyde (1946)
Fenlands (1946)
Holiday Camp (1947)
Miranda (1948)
Broken Journey (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Landfall (1949)
Double Confession (1950)
Trio (1950)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Planter's Wife (1952)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
The Seekers (1954)
Value for Money (1955)
Loser Takes All (1956)
Three Men in a Boat (1956)
Across the Bridge (1957)
Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Very Important Person (1961)
The Hellions (1961)
The Fast Lady (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
The Informers (1963)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Long Duel (1967)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Paper Tiger (1975)
The Pirate (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
The Pirate Movie (1982)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

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