Barnacle Bill (Original title)All at Sea (Alternative title)
Dates: 1957 (Copyright), 06 January 1958 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Charles Frend
Synopsis: Comedy about a Naval officer who buys a seaside pier and registers it as a ship to defeat local bumbledom and chicanery.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Piers, Ships
Releases
Date: 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Length: 7856 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: February 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Language: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v25 n288 January 1958: no known title]Language: English
In: Sight and Sound v27 n3 Winter 1957/58 Page: 150
Title: [Sight and Sound - v27 n3 Winter 1957/58: no known title]Language: English
In: The Daily Cinema n7909 21 Nov 1957 Page: 3
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n7909 21 Nov 1957: no known title]Language: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n2623 21 Nov 1957 Page: 18
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2623 21 Nov 1957: no known title]Language: English
In:
Title: [ - : no known title]
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: VHS cassetteBFI identifier: C-1222478
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Video materials(1)
Description: VHS cassetteBFI identifier: C-1222478
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Film materials(2)
Description: 35mm BFI identifier: C-12366
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7860 FeetStock date: 1957BFI identifier: C-12365
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Dates: 1957 (Copyright), 06 January 1958 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Charles Frend
Synopsis: Comedy about a Naval officer who buys a seaside pier and registers it as a ship to defeat local bumbledom and chicanery.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Piers, Ships
Releases
Date: 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Length: 7856 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: February 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Language: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
(29)
©/Production Company: Ealing Films Limited, Presents/An M.G.M. Release: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A Michael Balcon Production: Michael Balcon, Associate Producer: Dennis Van Thal, Unit Production Manager: Alfred Marcus, Production Supervisor: Hal Mason, Assistant Director: Tom Pevsner, Continuity: Jean Graham, Casting: Irene Howard, Story and Screenplay by: T.E.B. Clarke, Director of Photography: Douglas Slocombe, Radar Photography: John Stewart, Camera Operator: Chic Waterson, Editor: Jack Harris, Art Director: Alan Withy, Dress Designer: Sophie Devine, Make-up: Harry Frampton, Hairdresser: Elsie Alder, Music Composed by: John Addison, Dance Music by: Derek New, [Music] Played by: The Sinfonia of London, [Music] Conducted by: Dock Mathieson, Sound Supervisor: Stephen Dalby, [Sound] Recordist: Cyril Swern, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Sound Editor: Alistair Mcintyre, [Unit Publicist]: Catherine O'Brien, Made at: MGM British Studios
Cast
(53)
Alec Guinness (Captain William Horatio Ambrose), Irene Browne (Arabella Barrington), Maurice Denham (Mayor Crowley), Percy Herbert (Tommy), Victor Maddern (Frank Figg), Allan Cuthbertson (Chailey), Harold Goodwin (Duckworth), Richard Wattis (registrar of shipping), Lionel Jeffries (Garrod), George Rose (Bullen), Lloyd Lamble (Superintendent Browning), Harry Locke (Peters, the reporter), Mike Morgan (Larry), Max Butterfield (Phil), Donald Churchill (Roy), Jackie Collins (June), Frederick Piper (Harry, the barman), Fred Griffiths (bus driver), Gerald Case (commander), William Mervyn (captain), John Horsley (first surgeon), Derek Waring (second surgeon), Donald Pleasence (bank cashier), Newton Blick (bank manager), Junia Crawford (Evie), Warren Mitchell (Artie White), Frank Burdett (bald man), Martyn Woodman (Reggie Skinner), Susan Gibson (Sheila), Diana Chesney (Mrs Figg), Miles Malleson (angler), Charles Lloyd Pack (Tritton), Eric Pohlmann (Liberamanian consul), Charles Cullum (Major Kent), Joan Hickson (Mrs Kent), Alexander Harris (Adrian), Sam Kydd (frogman), Toke Townley (Timmins), Elsie Wagstaff (Mrs Gray), Anthony Sagar (coxswain), Alec Guinness ([Ambrose's six ancestors]), George Butler ([Sir Francis Drake]), John Benn ([Drake's messenger]), Paul Cole, Gordon Bennett ([cadet]), Kevin Kelly, Brian Nash, David Tilley, Howard Vaughan, Ray James, Ross Yeo, Irene Hollis ([uncredited]), John Turner ([])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(5)
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v25 n288 January 1958 Page: 2Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v25 n288 January 1958: no known title]Language: English
In: Sight and Sound v27 n3 Winter 1957/58 Page: 150
Title: [Sight and Sound - v27 n3 Winter 1957/58: no known title]Language: English
In: The Daily Cinema n7909 21 Nov 1957 Page: 3
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n7909 21 Nov 1957: no known title]Language: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n2623 21 Nov 1957 Page: 18
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2623 21 Nov 1957: no known title]Language: English
In:
Title: [ - : no known title]
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: VHS cassetteBFI identifier: C-1222478
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Video materials(1)
Description: VHS cassetteBFI identifier: C-1222478
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Film materials(2)
Description: 35mm BFI identifier: C-12366
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7860 FeetStock date: 1957BFI identifier: C-12365
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film