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Watch Your Stern (Original title)
Dates: 1960 (Copyright), 25 April 1960 (Production), 24 October 1960 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Gerald Thomas

Synopsis: Naval comedy centring on complication during atomic torpedo tests.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Military
Releases
Date: 1960Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 88 mins Length: 7964 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (56)
©: Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors, [Production Company]: G.H.W. Productions, Produced by: Peter Rogers, Production Manager: Frank Bevis, [Production Accountant]: Bernard Spence, [Production Secretary]: Gay Lucas, [Producer's Secretary]: Janet Finch, Assistant Director: Jack Causey, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: David Tringham, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Jim Brennan, Continuity: Marjorie Lavelly, Casting Director: Betty White, Screenplay by: Alan Hackney, Vivian A. Cox, From the Play by: Earle Couttie, Director of Photography: Ted Scaife, Camera Operator: Alan Hume, [Focus Puller]: James Devis, [Clapper Loader]: Ron Ford, [Chargehand Electrician]: Thomas Heathcote, [Camera Grip]: Reg Hall, [Stills]: Albert Clarke, Editor: John Shirley, [Assistant Editor]: Peter Andrews, [Assembly Cutter]: Jim Sibley, Art Director: Carmen Dillon, Set Dressing: Peter Lamont, [Draughtsman]: Robert Laing, Alan Fraiser, [Prop Buyer]: Ron Quelch, [Construction Manager]: Bert Mansell, [Stagehand]: H. Dilley, Dress Designer: Joan Ellacott, [Wardrobe Mistress]: Pat Baden, [Men's Wardrobe]: Ben Foster, Make Up: Alec Garfath, Hairdressing: Biddy Chrystal, Music Composed and Directed by: Bruce Montgomery, Sound Recordist: Robert T. MacPhee, Bill Daniels, [Chief Sound Engineer]: Cyril Crowhurst, [Sound Camera Operator]: Charles Tasto, [Boom Operator]: Harry Fairbairn, [Boom Assistant]: Vivian Temple-Smith, [Sound Maintenance]: Austin Partridge, [Dubbing Crew]: Bill Daniels, [Dubbing Crew]: Ted Karnon, [Dubbing Crew]: Ken Barker, Larry Thompson, Sound Editor: Jim Sibley, [Assistant Sound Editor]: David Nimmo, Naval Adviser: Lieut. Com. Peter Peake, [Publicity]: John Troke, [Publicity Secretary]: Vera Harrington, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (34)
Kenneth Connor (O/S Blissworth), Eric Barker (Captain David Foster), Leslie Phillips (Lt Cdr Bill Fanshawe), Joan Sims (Ann Foster), Noel Purcell (Admiral Sir Humphrey Pettigrew), Hattie Jacques (Agatha Potter), Spike Milligan (Ranjit, Indian electrician), Eric Sykes (electrician), Sidney James (Chief Petty Officer Mundy), David Lodge (security sergeant), Victor Maddern (1st sailor), Ed Devereaux (Commander Phillips), Robin Ray (flag lieutenant), George Street (2nd security guard), Peter Howell (admiral's secretary), Arch Taylor (coxswain), Michael Brennan (1st security guard), Leila Williams (WREN driver), Richard Bennett (officer of the day), Carl Conway (.), Rory Macdermot (3rd security guard), Hedley Colson, Walter Kavan, Raf Jover (.), Jack Smethurst (sailor), Dickie Owen, John Mathews, Bill Cartwright, Peter Byrne, Ivor Danvers, Charles Vance, Michael Nightingale (.), Eric Corrie (engineer officer), Michael Julian (.)