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Sailor Beware (Original title)Panic in the Parlor (Alternative title)
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 22 October 1956 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Gordon Parry

Synopsis: Domestic comedy based on the stage success. A sailor is nearly frightened off marriage by the domineering habits of his future mother in law.

Genre:
Comedy
Releases
Date: 1956Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 80 mins Length: 7240 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (42)
©/A Remus Production: Remus Films, Presents: Romulus Films, Distribution Controlled by: Independent Film Distributors Ltd., Produced by: Jack Clayton, Production Manager: Raymond Anzarut, Assistant Director: Buddy Booth, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: David Bracknell, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Otto Plaschkes, Continuity: Doreen Francis, Screenplay by: Philip King, Falkland L. Cary, From the Stage Play 'Sailor Beware' by: Philip King, Falkland L. Cary, Lighting Cameraman: Douglas Slocombe, Camera Operator: Geoff Seaholme, [Focus Puller]: Gerry Fisher, [Clapper Loader]: Ron Drinkwater, [Stills]: Eric Gray, [Special Processes]: Bryan Langley, [Supervising Editor]: Ralph Kemplen, Editor: Stanley Hawkes, [Assistant Editor]: Alban Streeter, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: John Kelly, Art Director: Norman Arnold, [Draughtsman]: William Hutchinson, Wardrobe Supervisor: Bridget Sellers, Make-up: George Frost, Hairdresser: Joan White, Music composed by: Peter Akister, Musical Director: Lambert Williamson, Sound Supervisor: John Cox, Sound Recordist: Peter Handford, Bob Jones, [Boom Operator]: Bill Cook, [Sound Camera Operator]: Jack Smart, [Dubbing Crew]: Bob Jones, [Dubbing Crew]: Paddy Cunningham, Barbara Hopkins, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, [Publicity]: Lilanna Wilkey, Produced at: Shepperton Studios
Cast (27)
Peggy Mount (Emma Hornett), Shirley Eaton (Shirley Hornett), Ronald Lewis (Albert Tufnell), Cyril Smith (Henry Hornett), Esma Cannon (Edie Hornett), Gordon Jackson (Carnoustie Bligh), Geoffrey Keen (Reverend Mr Purefoy), Joy Webster (Daphne Pink), Thora Hird (Mrs Lack), Elliot Makeham (Uncle Brummell), Fred Griffiths (taxi driver), Edie Martin (little woman in church), Margaret Moore (little girl outside church), Barbara Hicks (little girl's mother), George Rose (waiter at Banfield's), Jack MacGowran ([Toddy]), Peter Collingwood ([verger]), Henry McGee ([milkman]), Douglas Blackwell ([co-op man]), Richard Beynon ([1st bearded sailor]), Paul Eddington ([2nd bearded sailor]), Michael Caine ([sailor]), George A. Cooper ([naval officer]), Alfie Bass ([church organist]), John Pike, Julia Atkinson, Murray Yeo ([uncredited])