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
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
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©/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
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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 ([])